On 9 April 2025, a new law came into force in Ukraine, removing the 10-year time limit for requesting a review of domestic court decisions following a judgment by the European Court of Human Rights.
This change follows the Constitutional Court’s judgment of 14 February 2024 which declared unconstitutional the provisions of the Ukrainian Commercial Procedural Code that limited requests for reviewing domestic court decisions to 10 years following the European Court’s judgments. In its decision, the Constitutional Court referred to the case-law of the European Court, notably the judgments in the cases of Generalnyy Budivelnyy Menedzhment v. Ukraine, and Ustimenko v. Ukraine, as well as to Recommendation No. R (2000) 2 of the Committee of Ministers on the re-examination or reopening of certain cases at domestic level following judgments of the European Court.
Thus, the newly adopted legislation introduces important guarantees for redressing violations of the Convention, notably the effective implementation of the principle of restitutio in integrum and full and timely execution of the European Court’s judgments in cases where Ukraine is the respondent state.
