Seleznov V. Unification of legal norms of human rights in the circumstances of European integration

The thesis deals with the problems of theoretical and practical aspects of legal and institutional cooperation of such European regional organizations as the Council of Europe, the European Union, OSCE, etc. as to the unification of legal norms of human rights. There has been substantiated the inalienability of legal norms of human rights from the process of international cooperation. The forms and limits of unification of legal norms of human rights as an inalienable part of integration of the European states have been defined. The main reason that has caused the beginning of unification of the norms concerning human rights’ protection and fundamental freedoms there should be determined the rapid trends of expansion of trans-frontier ideas in the late XIX c. and early XX c.; among them the ideas of protection of human rights and freedoms. In the course of unification of legal norms of human rights special significance has been devoted to the cooperation of the European Union and the Council of Europe aspiring to a closer cooperation in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms protection and which is ‘the most important component of international law and order and an essential indicator of the world’s law and order’. The moves as to the legal norms of human rights have been defined. There has been propounded a mechanism of cooperation between the EU judicial bodies and the European court of Human Rights. There have been determined the influence of the prospective Association Agreement of Ukraine and the EU on the Ukrainian legal system adaptation with the EU legislation.