Assessment of Current Legislation and Judicial Enforcment Prorcedure in Ukraine

In December 2006, Ukraine and the United States of America signed an agreement on Ukraine’s Threshold Program run by the Millennium Challenge Corporation and worth about USD 45 million. The two-year program aims to reduce corruption in the public sector through strengthening civil society’s monitoring and exposure of corruption, judicial reform, increased government monitoring and enforcement of ethical and administrative standards, streamlining and enforcing regulations and combating corruption in higher education. The initiative is part of the MCC Threshold Program for countries “at the threshold” of becoming eligible for assistance funds from the “New Millennium Account”, often referred to as the Pact Program.

One of the key components of the MCC Program in Ukraine is facilitating the judicial reform. Critical to efforts to fight corruption is increasing the level of transparency in the delivery of justice by introducing permanent improvements in key legislative, procedural and institutional arrangements. Measures should be taken to turn courts, enforcement service and notary into effective tools of preventing corruption in Ukraine. Therefore the proposed activities will also contribute to fostering a more professional cadre of judges, court personnel, state enforcement officers and notaries.  It is to implement the subcomponents Judicial Enforcement Reform and Notary Reform that Commercial Law Center was awarded a contract, which it has been executing in close cooperation with the Ministry of Justice since May 2007.