On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, the Grand Chamber at the plenary session adopted the Ruling on the consolidation of cases into one constitutional proceedings upon the constitutional complaints of Oleksandr Petrychuk, Mariana Ostapenko, Mykola Starychenko, and Serhii Harlyka regarding the constitutionality of the paragraph 3.3 of Section II „Final and Transitional Provisions“ of the Law of Ukraine „On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding Priority Measures for the Reform of Prosecutor’s Offices“ of September 19, 2019 No. 113-IX.
At the session, the judges of the Grand Chamber discussed the issue of changing the form of consideration of the case upon the constitutional petition of the Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of subparagraph 13 of paragraph 23-1 of Section III „Final and Transitional Provisions“ of the Law of Ukraine „On the High Council of Justice“ of December 21, 2016 No. 1798-VIII, subparagraphs one, six, eleven of paragraph 4 of Section II „Final and Transitional Provisions“ of the Law of Ukraine „On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding the Procedure for Election (Appointment) of Members of the High Council of Justice and Activities of Disciplinary Inspectors of the High Council of Justice“ of July 14, 2021 No. 1635-IX. The Court left the form of consideration of this case unchanged (oral proceedings).
On the same day, the Grand Chamber at its session adopted two rulings extending the term for adopting the rulings on initiating or refusal to initiate constitutional proceedings in cases upon constitutional complaints of Yelyzaveta Yevhrafova and Nadiia Babynska. The term was extended until May 25 of this year.
In addition, at the session, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine continued the consideration of the issue of approving the text of the annual information report of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine for 2022. The Court will proceed with consideration of this issue at one of the further plenary sessions.
