The Council of Europe and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine signed the Memorandum of understanding on implementation of the project “Supporting Ukraine in execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights”
On 11 July 2018, the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine officially signed the Memorandum of understanding on implementation of the project “Supporting Ukraine in execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights”. The Memorandum was signed by Mr Мårten Ehnberg, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine, and Mr Ivan Lishchyna, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine – the Agent before the European Court of Human Rights.
The implementation of the Council of Europe project “Supporting Ukraine in execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights” (the Project) started in February 2018 and will continue until September 2019. The Project is funded by the Human Rights Trust Fund and implemented by the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department of the Council of Europe.
The overall objective of the Project is to support Ukraine in the improvement of its national system of execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights that involve violations of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, where the root cause is an issue within the judiciary.
Specific project objectives are the following:
- to support Ukraine in further implementation of the Council of Europe standards on organisation and functioning of the judiciary so as to provide for a better judicial independence, in line with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights “Oleksandr Volkov v. Ukraine” and the “Salov v. Ukraine” group of judgments;
- to support the Ukrainian authorities in installing an effective system of remedies from alleged violations of the European Convention on Human Rights, in particular from non-enforcement of domestic judgments and from lengthy judicial proceedings (judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in cases “Burmych and others v. Ukraine”, “Yuriy Nikolayevich Ivanov v. Ukraine”, “Merit v. Ukraine” and “Svitlana Naumenko v. Ukraine”);
- to support the Supreme Court in ensuring full, through and effective reopening of the judicial proceedings following judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (cases “Bochan v. Ukraine (no. 2)”, “Yaremenko v. Ukraine (no. 2)” and “Shabelnik v. Ukraine (no. 2)”), and in ensuring effective application of the Protocol no. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights.
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