One of the main directions of activity implemented by the Centre consists in cooperation with international intergovernmental and nongovernmental institutions, and also with foreign organizations. The Centre takes a very active part in interaction with the United Nations Development Programme (UN Development Programme or UNDP), with the OSCE Office in Minsk, the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Euroasian Economic Community (IPA EurAsEC), the International Organization for Migration, the Legislation Research Institute of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Swiss Society of Legislation.
The cooperation of the Centre with the OSCE Office in Minsk and with the UNDP is mainly carried out within the framework of projects of international technical assistance (hereinafter also referred as projects). These aim at improvement of the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus in socially important directions. During performance of these projects there have been developed and discussed primary approaches to crucial of the day, there has been organized the study of experience accumulated by foreign states.
In the years 2004-2005 the Centre acted as the organization responsible for the realization of the UNDP project of international technical assistance entitled “Improvements of the Legislative Process in Belarus through Impact Assessment” (approved by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 25 August 2004 ¹ 1016). The draft has been directed on improving the quality of draft normative legal acts to be prepared in the Republic of Belarus and on rendering assistance to main rule-making institutions of the Republic of Belarus in the implementation of the analysis of the law enforcement practice while preparing the above draft acts.
Nowadays jointly with the UNDP the Centre is the main performer of the project of international technical assistance entitled “Promoting the Administrative Procedures Reform (APR) in Belarus” (approved by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 30 December 2006 ¹ 1770). The implementation of the project has essentially contributed to the decision of following tasks:
- development of the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On Essential Principles of Administrative Procedures”;
- information and other assistance to the state bodies of the Republic of Belarus in the improvement of administrative procedures;
- assistance to the citizens in informing about their rights, legitimate interests and the mechanisms of their implementation (realization) at execution of administrative procedures.
More detailed information on the specified projects is located to the address http://un.by/en/undp/db/.
Within 2005-2007 and jointly with the OSCE Office in Minsk the Centre took part in realization of projects of international technical assistance on following subject-matters:
- Elaboration of the model of Population Register of the Republic of Belarus and preparation of the concept of draft law of the Republic of Belarus “On the Population Register of the Republic of Belarus” (approved by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 4 August 2005 ¹ 857);
- Improvement of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the field of the taxation organization and of the State support for handicraft activity (approved by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 4 August 2005 ¹ 857);
- Improvement of the criminal and the criminal procedural law of the Republic of Belarus in applying of alternatives to criminal prosecution (approved by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 4 August 2005 ¹ 857);
- Improvement of the rule-making process through the introduction of criminological expert examination (approved by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 4 August 2005 ¹ 857);
National seminar on fight against money-laundering and financing of terrorism (approved by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 30 December 2006 ¹ 1770).
