The Venice Commission did not demand controversial provision of anticorruption court law

After the law on anticorruption court was published, there turned out to be a provision that contradicts prior agreements with the international partners.

Thus, the law envisages that appeals on NABU cases, consideration of which started in the ordinary first instance courts, will be heard in the regular appellate courts circumventing the Appeals Chamber of the High Anticorruption Court.

As the European Pravda reports, the Secretary of the Venice Commission Thomas Markert stated that the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe did not make a recommendation that corruption cases sent to courts before the establishment of the High Anticorruption Court are not subject to appeal in the newly established Court.