Main Objectives and Directions of Economic Justice of Belarus

According to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus the judiciary system of the Republic of Belarus consists of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus, courts of general jurisdiction with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus at the head and economic courts with the Supreme Economic Court of the Republic of Belarus at the head.

Being the bodies of judicial authority, economic courts according to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus administer justice in the field of economic relations.

The Supreme Economic Court and economic courts of the regions and the city of Minsk form an independent and uniform system of economic court according to the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Judicial Organization and Status of Judges.

The economic courts are entrusted with the following tasks:
· proper and timely examination of cases by economic courts;
· protection of infringed or contested rights and legitimate interests of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs, as well as rights and legitimate interests of the Republic of Belarus, administrative and territorial units of the Republic of Belarus, state authorities, local government bodies, other bodies and officials in the indicated field, and in the cases provided for by legislative acts, of the organizations that are not legal entities and of the citizens;
· promotion of law enforcement and prevention of wrong in the field of entrepreneurial and other economic activities;
· execution of court rulings established by the Code of economic procedure of the Republic of Belarus and other legislative acts on legal procedure in economic courts and acts of other agencies;
· promotion of formation and perfection of partner business relations, creation of customs and ethics of business intercourse;
· strengthening the authority of judiciary power.

The Supreme Economic Court is at the head of the system of economic courts, is responsible for implementation of the tasks entrusted to economic courts, for organization, condition, perfection of their activities.

The Code of the Republic of Belarus on Judicial Organization and Status of Judges vested economic courts with the right to participate in the process of rule-making.

Addressing to the Constitutional Court with proposal for verification of legality of one or another normative act as to conformity with Constitution (paragraph 3 of the article 69 of the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Judicial Organization and Status of Judges) is one of the aspects of participation of economic courts in the process of rule-making.

There is Legislation and International Affairs Division in the structure of the Supreme Economic Court carrying out of legal expert examination and preparation of opinions on draft normative legal acts are among its main functions.

The Supreme Economic Courts elaborates draft normative acts on perfection of economic legal procedure.

Analysis and generalization of the judicial practice is one of the most important directions in the activity of the Supreme Economic Court in the field of establishment of uniform judicial practice.

The Research Advisory Board was established at the Supreme Economic Court based upon the objectives of perfection of the law enforcement practice of the economic courts of the Republic of Belarus, with the purpose of development of science-based propositions in the field of economic activity and legislation. Anticipatory discussion of draft resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Economic Court at the meetings of the Research Advisory Board became customary in the work of the Supreme Economic Court.

The Supreme Economic Court has the official printed body of economic courts, the periodical Bulletin of the Supreme Economic Court of the Republic of Belarus and the site in Internet located at the address: www.court.by.