Expected strategic result 2.1.5.2. Amendments have been made to the Law of Ukraine On the Prosecutor’s Office; they define an exhaustive list of grounds for dismissal and termination of powers of prosecutors, including the Prosecutor General, which makes it impossible to apply them without justification

The law on amendments to the Law of Ukraine On the Prosecutor’s Office has taken effect, which improves the disciplinary procedure by:
a) optimizing the grounds for disciplinary liability of prosecutors (10 percent);
b) providing clearer definitions of disciplinary misconduct by prosecutors and observance of the prosecutorial code of ethics by prosecutors (20 percent);
c) compiling the list of specific details that must be included in a disciplinary complaint about disciplinary misconduct by a prosecutor, and implementing a mechanism for rejecting a disciplinary complaint (20 percent);
d) expanding the list of disciplinary sanctions in order to make them more proportional and effective, as well as stipulating the general conditions for imposing the sanctions, and the circumstances mitigating or aggravating the liability of a prosecutor (10 percent);
e) revising the exhaustive list of grounds on which prosecutors can be dismissed and the term within which prosecutors can face disciplinary liability (30 percent).

the results of the expert survey have demonstrated that:
a) more than 75 percent of experts on the activities of law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities evaluate the effectiveness of disciplinary penalties imposed on prosecutors as high or very high (10 percent);
b) more than 50 percent of experts on the activities of law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities evaluate the effectiveness of disciplinary penalties imposed on prosecutors as high or very high (7 percent);
c) more than 25 percent of experts on the activities of law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities evaluate the effectiveness of disciplinary penalties imposed on prosecutors as high or very high (4 percent).