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The article considers the quality of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine as a normative basis for the activities of prosecutors. Attention is drawn to the fact that shortcomings in the legislation directly and negatively affect the effectiveness and efficiency of prosecutors and the prosecutor’s office as a whole, despite all good efforts of law enforcement, ie a particular prosecu- tor, prosecutor’s office to ensure proper performance of professional duties or exercise appropriate competence.

Emphasis is placed on the need to ensure clarity, clarity and adequacy of legislative requirements, given the special permit type of legal regulation of state bodies, which prohibits everything except permitted by law. Otherwise, situations may arise in which it is impossible for a state body to actually achieve socially desirable results precisely as a result of the imperfection of the legal regulation of their activities.

Proposals are formulated to improve the legislation taking into account not only the need to prevent the risk of disproportionate interference in the rights and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings, but also, first of all, as a factor influencing the activities of prosecutors – subjects of «effective criminal justice» as mentioned in paragraph 1 of Recommendation R (2000) 19 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states on the role of the prosecution service in the criminal justice system.

In this sense, it is necessary to bring the content of the CPC of Ukraine in accordance with the provisions of Art. 1311 of the Constitution of Ukraine and on the need to finalize the content of paragraph 2. of this article of the Constitution. In addition, the need to give the prosecutor the right to remove the investigator from the pre-trial investigation, if there are appropriate grounds for this provided by the CPC of Ukraine, in case of ineffective pre-trial investigation or if he violates the law, as well as the right to initiate the issue of bringing him to disciplinary responsibility and more.

Keywords: quality, criminal procedure legislation, prosecutor, prosecutor’s office, effective and efficient activity.

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