Some Prospects for Implementation of International Legal Acts in Law-enforcement Agencies of Ukraine Activity on Counteraction to Organized Criminality

Abstract

This paper, based on the analysis of international legal acts on combating organized criminal groups, reasonable necessity of their implementation in practice of fighting crime in Ukraine, as well as by problems of adaptation of national legislation. In view of the problems, connected with the appointment of criminal punishment by courts, for Ukraine approaches to these issues are interesting, enshrined in the UN Convention against transnational organized criminality, such as: a) judge in sentencing must take into consideration the danger’s degree of the offense, committed by organized criminal groups; b) the courts and other competent bodies should be born in mind dangerous nature of these crimes when considering the possibility of early or parole release for persons, convicted in them, as well as the court may adopt more strict measures, than it provided in this Convention for prevention of transnational organized criminality and combating them.On the basis of international law and corresponding Ukraine’s commitments, legislator must amend art. 3 of the Law of Ukraine «About the organizational and legal framework to combat organized criminality» with such task as «the creation of appropriate legal, organizational and other conditions to combat transnational organized criminality», and to supplement this legal norm note, in which give a definition «transnational criminality», based on the content of this term, which is enshrined in the UN Convention against transnational organized criminality.