Friday, December 4, 2015

The State Duma adopted a law allowing the Constitutional Court to recognize the ECHR decision unenforceable

MOSCOW, December 4. / TASS /. The State Duma passed in the second and once in the third and final reading a bill authorizing the Constitutional Court (CC) of the Russian Federation to recognize unenforceable decisions of international courts in the first place, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), if they contravene the Russian Constitution. 

The authors of the initiative made by the representatives of all Duma factions headed by the chairman of the profile committee of the House Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Vladimir Pligin and Senator Andrei Klishas.

The amendments made to the Federal Constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court pursuant to the July decision of the Constitutional Court.
They provide that "at the request of the federal executive authority vested with competence to protect the interests of Russia when considered in interstate bodies for the protection of human rights and freedoms of complaints filed against the Russian Federation on the basis of an international treaty, the Russian Constitutional Court resolves the issue of the possibility of execution of the interstate body for the protection of human rights and freedoms. " In particular, competent for such appeals to the Constitutional Court gives the president of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation.


If the Constitutional Court makes a decision on the impossibility of execution of the interstate body for the protection of human rights and freedoms as a whole, or in part, any action (acts), aimed at the performance of its respective decisions in Russia, can not be carried out (taken ).

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