At its Human Rights meeting on 2-4 December, the Committee of Ministers reviewed the progress made by Ukraine in implementing the European Court of Human Right’s judgments in the Oleksandr Volkov group concerning structural issues related to the independence of the judiciary and the system of judicial discipline and careers (violations of the right to a fair trial and the right to respect for private life). It has been supervised by the Committee of Ministers since 2013.
The Committee noted with satisfaction the functioning of the reformed framework governing the system of judicial careers and discipline, a development made possible by a range of multifaceted legislative and institutional reforms carried out since 2016 with extensive expert assistance of the Council of Europe. In view of the substantial progress achieved, the Committee closed the supervision of the Oleksandr Volkov case as a leading case in this group of cases (Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)399).
The Committee will continue its supervision of the outstanding measures, notably as regards the coherent operation of the new disciplinary system and consolidation of the disciplinary practice, the application of the Unified Indicators for Assessing Integrity and Professional Ethics of Judges, and further improvement of the legal and institutional framework within the framework of the Denisov and Golovchuk cases, with a continued focus on judicial independence, impartiality and the principle of irremovability of judges.
