Rada to enable foreign specialists to help identify unidentified bodies
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine intends to create conditions for involving specialists from foreign states and international organizations in the identification of unidentified bodies of the deceased.
The relevant draft law No. 14095 on amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) and other laws on optimizing the processes of searching for missing persons and identifying unidentified bodies (remains) during martial law was supported as a basis by 259 people's deputies at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday.
The draft law proposes to supplement Article 71 of the CPC with norms that provide a legal basis for involving a specialist from a foreign state or international organization in the identification of a person. As noted in the explanatory note to the draft law, this change will correspond to the norm provided for in Clause 9, Part 4, Article 71 of the CPC, which states that a specialist has the right to provide certificates and conclusions regarding the identification of a person.
At the same time, the draft law proposes to supplement Part 3 of Article 11 of the Law "On State Registration of Human Genomic Information" with a new paragraph, according to which one of the necessary identification information that will be recorded in the registration card will be the unique code of the body (remains) of the deceased (deceased) person. The new provisions (to Part 4 of Article 21 of the same law) propose to provide legal grounds for involving specialists from foreign countries and international organizations in the process of selecting biological material from close relatives of missing persons who are forced to live abroad and do not have access to law enforcement agencies of Ukraine to ensure further molecular genetic examination (research).
The amendments to the law will create legal grounds for involving relevant international specialists in the selection of biological material from unidentified bodies (remains), which are systematically delivered to the territory of Ukraine as a result of the relevant repatriation measures.
In addition, the draft law proposes to reword paragraph two of Part 7 of Article 7 of the Law "On the Unified State Demographic Register and Documents Confirming Citizenship of Ukraine, Identifying a Person or His Special Status", which will make it possible to use templates of digitized fingerprints of a person to identify the bodies (remains) of deceased (deceased) persons.
