Legislationline.org provides direct access to international norms and standards relating to specific human dimension issues (see list of topics on left-hand column) as well as to domestic legislation and other documents of relevance to these issues. These data and other information available from the site are intended for lawmakers across the OSCE region.     

 

 

 

 

OSCE/ODIHR has recently produced the following legal reviews and guidelines:

Draft Joint Opinion on the Draft Amendments to some Legislative Acts concerning Prevention of and Fight against Political Corruption in Ukraine (September 2015)
OSCE/ODIHR and the Venice Commission welcome the draft amendments as an important improvement to the existing legal framework on political party and campaign financing. Several  provisions could benefit from further improvement, in order to ensure that the draft amendments are in line with international standards. This relates, in particular, to provisions  in the areas of contribution and spending limits and oversight over political party and campaign financing by regulatory bodies.

OSCE/ODIHR Opinion on the Draft Law on Resolution of Disputes through Mediation and Amendments to Related Legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic (5 August 2015)

While the Opinion welcomes a mostly coherent legal framework pertaining to mediation which in many ways is compatible with international standards is also provides a number of recommendations in order to 

• ensure sufficient safeguards with respect to criminal mediation in line with international standards, 
• ensure the quality of mediation and guarantee procedural rights in the course of mediation processes,
• clarify the rules of confidentiality of mediation proceeding and the admissibility of mediation-related information as evidence in subsequent court proceedings, 
• clearly outline exceptions to the confidentiality in the law. 

ODIHR's work on regulatory reform:

Assessment of the Legislative Process in Georgia (30 January 2015)

Based on a Memorandum of Understanding, signed between the OSCE/ODIHR and the Parliament of Georgia on 24 February 2014, the OSCE/ODIHR has conducted an assessment of the legislative process in Georgia, a situational analysis of both the formal procedures and the actual practices in Georgia that apply to the preparation, drafting, enactment, publication, communication and evaluation of legislation.

The assessment report discusses the salient aspects of the legislative drafting / law making process in the country and identifies the existing concerns and risks as well as a number of goals to be achieved in order to enable the law-making system to function in a more effective, transparent and efficient way.

OSCE/ODIHR Assessment of the Legislative Process in the Republic of Armenia       (30 October 2014) recommends introducing greater flexibility and transparency in Armenian legislative process

The legislative process in the Republic of Armenia should be made more flexible and participatory, says an assessment report presented by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Yerevan on 30 October 2014.

The presentation, co-organized with the OSCE Office in Yerevan, was held for representatives from the Armenian National Assembly, the Government, state institutions, and international and civil society organizations. Read more.