22 June 2022

In the context of the on-going war in Ukraine, on 22 June 2022, the Max Planck Institute (MPI) Luxembourg for Procedural Law welcomed a delegation representing the Working Group on Compensations and Reparations established by the decrees of the President of Ukraine on 18 and 24 May 2022. The Group is tasked with the exploration and elaboration of mechanism of compensation for damages and reparations by the Russian Federation.
The expert meeting, hosted by the MPI Luxembourg, gathered Ms Iryna Mudra (Deputy Minister of Justice), Dr Anton Korynevych (Ambassador-at-large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine), Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi (Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine) and Mr Pavlo Pushkar (Head of Division of the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights), and researchers of the Luxembourg-based research institute.
The discussion focused on the case-law of the European Court of Justice on sanctions and confiscations and potential approaches towards the establishment of an international treaty framework for reparations and compensation relating to damages suffered by Ukraine as a result of the war. As such, the expert meeting provided an extensive overview of international accountability mechanisms covering a range of issues, including those relating inter alia to state immunity, confiscations, compensations, reparations, and state responsibility in working documents to be presented to the President of Ukraine in July 2022.
The input of the researchers at the MPI Luxembourg will support the ultimate goal of the Working Group to draft a multilateral international legal instrument dealing with the above mentioned issues.