Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 435–440.
DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-435-440
Ternavska V. M.
The problems of legislative omission in the context of Ukraine’s constitutional and legal policy
The strategy of the constitutional and legal policy of the state, which provides for the sustainable development of society, the protection of national interests and the sovereignty of the state, requires proper statutory regulation of social relations and first of all in the field of constitutional and legal building. However, the important primary laws are absent in the system of national legislation, what raises the question of why the legislator is delaying their adoption.
The essence of the category «legislative omission» and its correlation with the adjacent notion «legal gap» are studied in the article. An analysis of the positions of courts’ constitutional jurisdiction regarding the presence of legislative omissions in the system of national legislation, determination of their nature and possible ways of overcoming them is carried out. There observed in the judicial and legal policy of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, on the one hand, the distinguishing categories «legislative gap» and «legislative omission», but, on the other hand, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine states that its competence does not include research and identification of legislative gaps, but as well as assessing the constitutionality of gaps in legal regulation, and moreover their filling.
It is concluded that legislative omissions, in the opinion of the author, should be considered as deliberate delay (inaction) of the subject of law-making activity regarding the adoption of normative-legal acts, the compulsion of which in the system of national legislation is directly stipulated by the Constitution of the state, and therefore it is a constitutionally-legal delict. The only legal means to date, which have a real potential to prevent the emergence or overcome existing legislative omissions, are legal planning and legal acts of the ECHR, the compulsory of which is provided by the Law of Ukraine «On Law-Making Activity». Legislative omissions require a systematic and comprehensive scientific study, the results of which should be taken into account when forming the concept of the constitutional and legal policy of the state.
Key words: law-making, legal gaps, legislative omissions, constitutional and legal policy, judicial and legal policy, legal means.
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Viktoriya Mykolayivna Ternavska,
Leading Researcher of the Department of
Research on Problems of Law-Making and
Adaptation of Ukrainian Legislation to EU Law
Institute of Law-Making and Scientific and Legal Expertise of the NAS of Ukraine,
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0003-2102-619X