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This document provides an analysis of the Law on Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) on 18 October 2001 and signed by President Kuchma on 30 October. On 30 October, the President issued Decree No. 1022/2001 “On Securing Implementation of Citizens’ Rights, Principles of Democratic Society, Openness and Transparency of the 2002 Election Process”. The Decree contains a series of instructions to the central executive bodies and local state administrations. This Decree, when properly implemented, will increase the transparency of the elections. Though part of the legislation under which the elections will be conducted, this report does not review the presidential Decree. The present analysis is based on an English-language translation whose accuracy has not been verified. Therefore, some of the comments in the report may flow from problems in the translation rather than the original text.

Election results

This assessment reviews and comments on the “Draft for Passing a Law on Election of Members of Parliament in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia”, which was submitted to the Assembly of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) by the government on 12 September 2001. The assessment is based on a reading and analysis of mainly unofficial English translations of the following: (1) Draft Parliamentary Election Law, (2) Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia (1991), (3) the Law on Election of Members of Parliament (1996, amended in 1998), (4) the Law for the Election of the President (1994, amended in 1999), (5) the Law on Local Elections (1996), (6) the Law on Voters Lists and Voter Identification Cards (1996, amended in 1998) and other laws.

Under the authority of SRSG office and in collaboration with Department of Public Services, Department for Democratic Governance and Civil Society, conducted an employment survey of Pristina-based central offices of each JIAS.

The concerns expressed in these reports referred to various structural and substantive aspects of the activity of the judiciary and its administrators, and also of the law enforcement agencies.

Second preparatory seminar, Zamora

This manual is a product of the presentations, workshops, focus groups and materials presented at the Victim Advocacy Conference held in Prishtine/Pristina 1-3 December 2001.

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has been requested by the Speaker of the Parliament to review and provide comments on the draft "Referendum Law on the State Status of the Republic of Montenegro" of 10 October 2001. The law is a lex specialis including 17 clauses, and is additional to the Referendum Law adopted on 19 February 2001, which was reviewed in detail by ODIHR in the Assessment published on 6 July 2001 (annexed herewith). Article 16 of the Draft Referendum Law on the State Status of the Republic of Montenegro specifically incorporates the provisions of the "Referendum Law (Official Gazette number 9/2001)" to apply "to the issues which are not regulated by this Law." This review should accordingly be read in conjunction with the Assessment of 6 July.