The Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor General's Office discussed the issues of strengthening prosecutor's supervision over the enforcement of decisions of the constitutional review body

Today in the General Prosecutor's Office was held a meeting of the Chairperson of the Constitutional Court Elvira Azimova and Prosecutor General Berik Asylov with the participation of judges of the Constitutional Court, deputies of the Prosecutor General, management of the apparatus of the constitutional control body and supervisory body with the online involvement of prosecutors of regions and cities of Astana, Almaty and Shymkent.

The meeting was devoted to the consideration of issues of implementation of normative rulings of the Constitutional Court.

To date, the Constitutional Court has issued 45 normative rulings. In 8 final decisions conclusions were made about contradiction of a number of norms of the current legislation to the Basic Law. In 13 cases, the Constitutional Court gave its interpretation of the understanding and application of the norms of the law.

The parties came to a common understanding of the need for urgent legislative changes to ensure the regime of constitutional legality in the country. In particular, it was a question of revocation and revision of decisions of courts and other law enforcement bodies in case the Constitutional Court recognizes laws or certain provisions thereof as compliant with the Constitution as interpreted by the Constitutional Court.

Elvira Azimova noted that the promotion of constitutional legality in order to ensure the protection of democratic values, guarantees of human rights and freedoms, stability of the legal system is a priority in the activities of all state bodies, officials, public institutions and citizens.

The judges of the Constitutional Court in their speeches emphasized the importance of ensuring systematic legal monitoring of the implementation of normative decisions to ensure constitutional legality, spoke about the adopted final decisions and noted the current legal positions that should be paid attention to by law enforcers.

In turn, Berik Asylov noted that the normative rulings of the Constitutional Court are an important element in law enforcement practice, and their implementation is a guarantee of protection of constitutional rights and freedoms of every citizen of our country.

During the meeting, procurators reported on measures taken to implement the normative rulings of the Constitutional Court. In particular, prosecutors checked over 15,000 criminal and 4,500 civil cases for compliance with the positions of the Constitutional Court, examined 3,000 complaints and applications of convicted persons, as well as 3,500 materials on the use of preventive measures in pre-trial proceedings.

In conclusion, the Prosecutor General instructed all prosecutors to ensure the direct application of the normative rulings of the Constitutional Court in their supervisory activities.