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DECISION OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE COUNCIL OF UKRAINE

of June 23, 2023

About acceleration of judicial reform and overcoming manifestations of corruption in justice system

Within essential activation and transfer in the practical plane of processes of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine:

states that judicial reform as one of the main cores of democratic development of the Ukrainian state is key and priority for the state;

maintains need of implementation of system of urgent steps on recovery of level of credibility to judicial branch of the power and strengthening of measures for steady carrying out judicial reform as one of core elements of ensuring supremacy of law;

notes that the trust to the state institutes is the key to invariable rate of the state on acquisition of membership of Ukraine in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and is one of the key moments of ensuring national security. Successful carrying out judicial reform is one of seven basic requirements of the European Union for further promotion in the directions of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine;

emphasizes need of ensuring operational and transparent work of newly formed bodies of judicial management;

emphasizes need for respect for modern democratic principles of functioning of justice system, in particular:

- activities of judicial, law enforcement agencies and criminal and executive organizations shall be based on the principle of supremacy of law;

- independent, effective, available and responsible judicial authority is that power to which trusts society;

- the virtuous and highly professional judicial case shall function on the principles of responsibility and accountability before society;

- legal cases shall be considered in reasonable time by the principles of equality of all participants of process before the law and court, competitiveness, publicity and openness of legal procedure and with use of modern technical means;

- justice in Ukraine shall be available to each citizen.

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