Abstract

The article includes the analysis of the draft Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding Cooperation with the International Criminal Court" dated by October 5, 2017 No. 7179, decisions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: On the Statement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dated by February 25, 2014 No. 790-VII and Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dated by February 4, 2015 No. 145-VIII, which marked the actual start of cooperation between the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine and the International Criminal Court before the relevant changes were made to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The norms of Section IX-2 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine regarding the specifics of cooperation with the International Criminal Court are analyzed. The purpose of the article is to determine the actual beginning of the cooperation of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine with the International Criminal Court, the main decisions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the decisions of the International Criminal Court that led to such cooperation and to analyze the norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, which regulate the peculiarities of cooperation with the International Criminal Court and determine the main subjects during investigation and trial. Special scientific and general scientific methods were used to achieve the stated goal: the method of scientific knowledge, the comparative legal method, the method of system analysis, the dialectical method. The article focuses attention on Resolution No. 145-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dated by February 4, 2015, which instructed the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine to collect the necessary materials and an appropriate evidence base for the application to the International Criminal Court. Peculiarities of cooperation of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, the Office of the Prosecutor General with the International Criminal Court and international cooperation during criminal proceedings under the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine are investigated. The main subjects of procedural cooperation with the International Criminal Court and the forms of appeal of the International Criminal Court to the Office of the Prosecutor General are determined. The specifics of choosing a preventive measure of detention and detention of a person wanted or in respect of whom the International Criminal Court has received a request for temporary arrest or for arrest and transfer are highlighted.

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