Belarus President in favor of emancipating business initiative

        It is important to take measures to emancipate business initiative in Belarus in conditions of objective business risks. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at the government session held to discuss further improvement of criminal law and criminal procedural law.
To achieve that, a draft decree has been prepared on amending the criminal code, the criminal procedural code, the administrative violations code, and the execution procedure code of Belarus.
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       The draft decree contains serious innovations, in particular, it rules out the unlawfulness of actions in conditions of business risks, envisages the application of pretrial collaboration agreement, the introduction of criminal law redress. The draft decree also decriminalizes individual actions of no great public danger and contains other essential changes in this sphere.
      There is no doubt that the decision to go through with these norms should be thoroughly discussed.
It is necessary to take into account consequences of the suggested measures and to clearly envisage the mechanism for their practical realization.
       We should be 100% confident that the optimization of criminal law instruments the draft envisages will not lead to the impunity of persons, who have committed actions, which are undoubtedly dangerous for the state, the society or our citizens.