SECTION 2. The results of NMP operation in Ukraine 151 when the term of detention as established in the earlier ruling of a judge has expired and the prosecutor referred the criminal case to court. Extension of the term of detention is possible at the stage of pre-trial investigation, while at the stage of judicial investigation suspects remain in detention on the grounds of the referral of the criminal case to court, which means that the term of detention is extended without a relevant court ruling. 9. To amend the Criminal Code of Ukraine with regard to the possibility of applying compulsory educational measures for repeated offenses of minor or medium gravity, with mandatory relevant rehabilitation. The necessity of humanizing criminal liability for children rests on recommendations 83-85 of the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the rights of the child (UNCRC) on Ukraine’s consolidated 3d and 4th periodic national report on implementation of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – specifically, “to ensure that the juvenile justice system in practice diverges from a punitive to a reparative juvenile justice system that promotes alternative measures to deprivation of liberty”. Such recommendations also correspond with Article 40 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, p. 5.1 of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (Beijing Rules), and pp. 3.2 and 10.3 of UN Standard Minimum Rules for Non-Custodial Measures (Tokyo Rules). These international standards were taken into account in the Edict of the President of Ukraine “On the Concept of development of the juvenile justice system in Ukraine” (No. 597/2011 of May 24, 2011) that envisages a number of activities in this sphere, including such as “to ensure efficient justice to juvenile offenders with account of age, social, psychological, psychophysical and other features, … to establish an efficient system of rehabilitation of juvenile offenders for their correctional education and re-socialization”. 10. To accelerate the establishment of the probation service, in furtherance of the Concept of public policy in the sphere of reform of the State Criminal Enforcement Service of Ukraine approved by Edict of the President of Ukraine No. 631/2012 of November 8, 2012, which will enable qualitative reforms of the juvenile justice system. 11. To initiate a review of the use of the term “disabled person” in the domestic legislation, specifically in the Laws of Ukraine “On the Fundamentals of Social Security of Disabled Persons in Ukraine”, “On Social Assistance at the State Expense to Persons Not Entitled to Pensions and to the Disabled”, “On Rehabilitation of the Disabled in Ukraine”, “The Fundamentals of the Health Care Legislation of Ukraine”, etc.

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