Representative of the Venice Commission Secratariat paid a working visit to the Constitutional Court

Chairman of the Constitutional Court Elvira Azimova of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a working meeting with the legal adviser of the Secretariat of the Venice Commission Mamuka Longurashvili. The Republic of Kazakhstan is a member of this Commission.

At present, on behalf of the Republic, it is composed of Elvira Azimova, President of the Constitutional Court, and Azamat Eskarayev, Minister of Justice.

The members of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) are internationally renowned university professors teaching constitutional and international law, lawyers, judges of constitutional and equivalent courts, members of national parliaments and high-ranking officials. They are appointed by the member states of the Venice Commission for four-year terms. The Commission has 61 members, of which 46 are member states of the Council of Europe.

The following States have observer status with the Venice Commission: Argentina, the Holy See, Japan, Uruguay and Uruguay. South Africa and the Palestinian National Authority have special status as Partners for Co-operation, similar to observer status.

The European Commission, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) and the Organization of American States regularly participate in the plenary sessions of the Venice Commission.

During the meeting Mr. Azimova Elvira and Mr. Mamuka Longurashvili discussed issues of participation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Venice Commission, directions of its interaction with the Constitutional Court.

In addition, the Venice Commission serves as the secretariat of the world conference on constitutional justice, which unites constitutional courts and equivalent bodies from more than 120 states.

During the meeting Ms. Elvira Azimova thanked the Venice Commission for inclusion of 16 normative resolutions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the electronic information and reference database CODICES. This database consists of more than 10 thousand decisions of more than one hundred courts, texts of constitution and laws regulating the activity of constitutional courts and equivalent institutions of Venice Commission member states.

As part of its participation in the Venice Commission, the Constitutional Court actively exchanges national legislation and legal information with its colleagues. This system of inquiries and responses to them provides opportunities to obtain prompt information on legal policy and legislation of Kazakhstan and other states, on decisions of constitutional courts and legal opinions of the Venice Commission within the framework of independent expert activity on requests of member states regarding draft laws or existing laws in terms of implementation of international standards and consideration of best law enforcement practices.