President
Vladimir Putin has signed into law the bill allowing the Constitutional
Court to overrule the decisions of international courts if such
decisions contradict the principle of supremacy of the Russian
Constitution.
The new act published on the government website on Tuesday
reads that the Constitutional Court will look into every decision of
any intergovernmental body based on an international treaty and find if
it matches the Russian Constitution and the rights and freedoms
guaranteed by it. Upon such consideration the Constitutional Court can
allow the decision to be executed in Russia, in full or in part, or ban
its execution – also in full or in part. The ban would automatically
cancel any national acts allowing the execution of the unconstitutional
ruling.
The
law has been developed and drafted in order to fulfill the mid-July
ruling of the Russian Constitutional Court reading that the rulings of
the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) must be individually approved
and only carried out if they do not contradict basic Russian law.In late 2013, the Russian Constitutional Court ruled that it had the right, but not an obligation to decide on the execution of contradictory ECHR decisions in Russia. The July decision expanded the supremacy of the Constitutional Court over foreign judiciaries and international treaties, and established the priority of the Constitution in general.
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