Thirty-one model laws out of the planned 43 had been adopted: Anatoly Vyborny reported on the preliminary results of the work under the 2016–2020 Action Plan at a CSTO PA Council meeting

Anatoly Vyborny, Chairman of the CSTO PA Standing Commission on Defence and Security and a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, told at the CSTO PA Council meeting about model recommendations that the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly plans to develop and propose to the Organization’s Member States.
As has already been reported, the meeting of the CSTO PA Council was held remotely on June 15.
Draft 2021–2025 CSTO PA Action Plan on Approximation and Harmonization of National Legislation became one of the central topics of the meeting.
Reporting on this topic to the members of the CSTO PA Council, Anatoly Vyborny stressed that “the Action Plan on Approximation and Harmonization of National Legislation is the main document regulating the lawmaking efforts. With it, we establish a single legal framework for combating terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking, organized crime and corruption in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.”
Speaking about the implementation of the current Action Plan that is in effect until the end of 2020, Mr Vyborny said that 43 model laws, recommendations and other legal acts have been developed from 2016 to date within the framework of the Plan.
To date, the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly has adopted 31 model acts, including 9 model laws and model treaties, among them laws On Ensuring National Security, On Security of Critical Facilities, On Countering Terrorism and Extremism Through Information, and a Model Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in Criminal Intelligence.
Work continues on draft model laws, recommendations and other legal acts that have already been sent to the parliaments of CSTO Member States to obtain expert opinions and are slated for review and adoption this autumn. These include the CSTO model laws On Information Security and On Combating Technological Terrorism at Fuel and Energy Complex Facilities.
Recommendations have been adopted to improve the national legislation of the CSTO Member States with regard to countering the spread of Nazism and its manifestations. In addition, attention was paid to combating information-related offences and to model legislation on collective humanitarian assistance in response to possible crisis situations in the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
“Recommendations to combat illicit trafficking in weapons of mass destruction and to develop common approaches by the CSTO Member States with regard to state registration of new psychoactive substances are being prepared for adoption. Approximation of national legislation on the organization of international Air Forces flights is under way, as well as the preparation of a concept of an action plan to counter cyber challenges and threats,” Mr Vyborny stressed.
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