THE ISSUES OF CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

The article discusses the issues of the use of the institute of conciliation proceedings. The rules, conditions, grounds, mechanism of concluding procedural agreements are investigated, legal consequences are studied and changes to improve this institution are proposed. The comparison of the procedural agreement on the admission of guilt with the institute of active repentance is carried out. The problems related to the proceedings in the conciliation proceedings in the courts of the first and second instances are raised. The issue of manipulations expressed in the use of the institute of conciliation proceedings by the pre-trial investigation bodies in order to achieve departmental indicators has been studied, proposals have been developed to exclude the possibility of their admission. Measures are proposed to exclude ambiguous formulations from the Criminal Procedure Code regulating the powers of the prosecutor when considering petitions for the conclusion of procedural agreements in the form of a transaction and a confession of guilt.

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