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Abstract. The analytical note examines the experience of legal regulation of the establishment of additional payments to the basic salary to employees (officers) of local self-government bodies that implement and administer international technical assistance projects (programs) at the expense of funds provided for the financing of such a project (program), on the example of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and the Baltic States.
Key words: employees (servants) of local self-government bodies, international technical assistance, remuneration of local self-government employees, additional payments to the basic salary, implementation and administration of projects (programs) by international funds.
03/2024
Abstract. The article presents the analysis results of the legislation of Estonia, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and Czechia on access of media representatives to parliaments. Attention is focused on the peculiarities of normative regulation of the procedure for accreditation of journalists, their admission to the parliament building, presence at meetings and other events of the parliament, as well as restrictions on such access.
Key words: accreditation, openness of the parliament, access of journalists to the parliament, journalist, mass media, media, professional journalistic activity.
03/2024
Abstract. The analytical note studies the experience of legal regulation of the urban planning control system on the example of the United Kingdom (England and Wales), Sweden, New Zealand and Australia; the general legal status of entities authorized to make decisions on issuing permits for preparatory and construction works, commissioning of completed construction projects in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Japan; the basic principles of professional liability insurance of persons authorized to exercise control over construction, on the example of Great Britain (England and Wales).
Key words: system of urban planning control, state architectural and construction control, construction, professional liability insurance, building regulations, urban planning.
03/2024
Abstract. The analytical note examines the foreign experience of parliamentary committees' work online (via videoconference), in terms of voting at a committee meeting by its members, counting the results during open voting, and roll-call voting. In particular, the legislation of such countries as Spain, Estonia, etc. was analysed.
Key words: parliamentary committees, MPs, committee meetings via videoconference, remote voting, coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19).
02/2024
Abstract. The analytical note examines current practice of accounting the working time of MP of European countries, in particular, the following: France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, and France. The procedure for accounting for the working time of MEP was also studied.
Key words: accounting of working time of MP, legal status of MP, Member of the European Parliament.
02/2024
Abstract. In the analytical note the experience of foreign countries in holding elections during martial law and other security challenges was carried out. The subject of the analysis is the legislation of such countries as Georgia, Moldova, the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Tunisia and others.
Key words: elections, voting, presidential elections, parliamentary elections, local elections, security challenges, Martial law, state of emergency, human rights and freedoms, COVID-19 pandemic.
12/2023
Abstract. The article analyzes international, including European, standards on lobbying, and conducts a comparative study of lobbying legislation of ten EU member states and candidate states with a view to taking into account best practices when introducing legal regulation of lobbying in Ukraine.
Key words: lobbying, legal regulation of lobbying, lobbying activities, international and European standards, European practices.
12/2023
Abstract. In the analytical note the foreign practice of conducting a pre-registration examination during the registration of a draft law in the parliament is researched in a comparative aspect, its regulatory and legal regulation, subjects, procedure and terms of conducting such examination, a list of issues analyzed at this stage, as well as the legal reasons for refusal to subject of the legislative initiative to the registration of the draft law. The legislation of following countries was studied: Austria, Belgium, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, France and others.
Key words: expertise, parliament, legislative initiative, legislative procedure, registration of a draft law, pre-registration expertise, subject of the right of legislative initiative, the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, foreign experience.
11/2023
Abstract. The experience of parliamentary committees and joint parliamentary committees of the EU and the candidate state in the negotiation process on the accession of the state to the European Union were analyzed. The peculiarities of the formation, composition and functions of the relevant committees of the parliaments of Croatia, Estonia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria were studied.
Key words: European Union, negotiation process, European integration, accession to the EU.
10/2023
Abstract. This analytical note provides the research of regulatory and legal settlement issues of assigning class ranks/ranks/grades or other distinctive features and additional payments for prosecutors. In the course of preparation of the Analytical Note, in addition to the foreign countries special legislation provisions that were under study, there were also used answers to the requests of the ECPRD by Slovakia № 723 «Prosecutors Office», by France № 1827 «Statut des membres du Ministère public-status of the members of the public prosecutor`s office» and also Final Summary ECPRD Request № 3331 «Calculation of salaries and allowances for judges, prosecutors and certain categories of professional staff in judicial and prosecutorial institutions in selected European countries».
Key words: prosecutor, class rank, rank, grades, extra payments, foreign experience.
09/2023