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“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 36 (2025), pages 745–754.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2025-36-745-754

Hasanov Aflatun Eldar ogli
Certain issues of the influence of international treaties on criminal law policy of Ukraine in the context of european integration

Introduction. In conditions of war in the issue of responsibility for crimes against humanity, war crimes, the need to ratify the Rome Statute should be considered not only as a full implementation of one of the requirements of the Association Agreement with the EU of 2014. The scale of war crimes, the modification of the methods and means of waging war that is ongoing in Ukraine, the practice of national courts indicate that the implementation of responsibility for war crimes committed in Ukraine will be a guideline, including for improving the criminal legal policy of the EU member states in terms of regulatory support for countering such challenges. 

The aim of the article is to determine the ways of implementing international treaties that constitute the obligations of the state in the field of criminal justice. 

Results and conclusions. Partial implementation of the Rome Statute to the norms of the General and Special Parts of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, taking into account the existing national judicial practice of qualifying international crimes under national legislation for almost three years, is therefore the only correct way to harmonize the legislation on criminal liability with the norms of the Rome Statute. At the same time, the issue of criminalization of international crimes, which fully include the norms contained in the Rome Statute, can be finally resolved within the framework of the implementation of another international treaty, the emergence of which is fully due to the war in Ukraine. 

Main results and conclusions of the study. Further improvement of the legislation on criminal liability in terms of the implementation of the Rome Statute should be carried out taking into account the substantive and procedural aspects defined by the Ljubljana-Hague Convention. This Convention was developed with the participation of Ukraine and in connection with the search for ways to increase the effectiveness of international law, and therefore is subject to the earliest possible ratification and implementation into national legislation. Given the functioning of the legal system of the state until 2025 without ratification of the Rome Statute, the implementation of international crimes in the form of separate special laws, following the example of draft law No. 11538, we consider it inappropriate and will cause significant difficulties in law enforcement.

Key words: international treaty of a criminal law nature, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, international crimes, war crimes, crimes against humanity, implementation, harmonization, Ljubljana-Hague Convention, criminal liability, criminal law measures against legal entities.

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