Council of Europe urges Russia to amend the law on the Constitutional Court – REGNUM

Strasbourg, France, 12 March 2016, 05:52 – REGNUM the Council of Europe Venice Commission urged Russia to amend the law on the Constitutional court, a number of provisions of the Commission of experts considered incompatible with the international obligations of Russia. The corresponding document was published on the official website of the organization, the correspondent IA REGNUM .

«Received Constitutional cudom Russia the right to make decisions about the” impossibility of performance “international decisions, including the Human Rights Court’s ruling is incompatible with the international obligations of Russia”, – said in the conclusion of the Advisory Council of Europe body in constitutional law.

The document notes that “the failure of the Constitutional Court to eliminate the contradiction between the Constitution and international decisions is not exempt from the obligation to fulfill international decisions.” “Russia must use dialogue rather than unilateral measures,” – said the Venice Commission

According to experts, the Russian party should consider amending the law on the Constitutional Court, taking into account the views of the Commission.. In particular, the federal constitutional law is proposed to consolidate the “responsibility of the Russian authorities to find alternative ways of execution of international decisions”, as well as to determine that the “individual measures, set out in the Court’s judgments, for example, the payment of fair compensation, may not be subject to evaluation of constitutionality” . The position of the “possibility of execution of the judgment”, the document proposes to replace in the “compatibility with the Constitution of international decision execution means».

How to Transfer IA REGNUM , etc. ezident Russian Vladimir Putin December 15, 2015 signed a law granting the Constitutional court of the new authority – to recognize it impossible to execute in the Russian international court decisions, if they violate the principle of supremacy of the Constitution.

According to the law, the basis for the consideration of the Constitutional Court of such cases may serve as swelling out the uncertainty in the question of the possibility of execution of the interstate body, based on the provisions of the relevant Russian international treaty interpretation, presumably leading to their divergence with the Constitution.

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