Implementation of International Law About Prevention Terorism Into Criminal Law of Ukraine

Abstract

The law implementation provision issues of international criminal law in the criminal law of Ukraine are considered. Implementation’s particularity of the international legal norms in respect of combating terrorism in the Criminal Law of Ukraine was studied. Proposals for Criminal Law of Ukraine related to the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism are analyzed. Improvements to existing Ukrainian criminal law are highlighted. It is concluded that availability of a number of criminal law provisions contains blanket dispositions which aimed to give a perception to the content of criminal breaches components referring to other legal acts (in particular, international treaties, conventions, acts of other sectoral legislation), which, in turn, explicate an essence of prohibitive provisions. In such cases, an appliance of international legal laws is eventual. It is defined that compliance with international obligations in national legislation relating to the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism is quite possible not only by criminalizing certain unlawful acts in the Criminal Code of Ukraine, but also through the keeping already available composition including committing offenses recommended by an international act. Herein, an internal legislator should retain the possibility of certain variability in choosing the form of implementation of international legal norms criminal legislation, taking into account the publicity of the relevant field and, above all, the preservation of sovereignty and national interests in the field. Basically, the carried out research demonstrates the complicity of regulating the implementation of international criminal law into national legislation requiring a comprehensive analysis of international legislation that should be preceded by integration into the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and requires the consideration of the interests of all parties of the international agreements.