{"id":534271,"date":"2026-04-16T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=534271"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:56:46","slug":"lukashenka-signs-law-on-regular-review-of-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-signs-law-on-regular-review-of-legislation","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Signs Law on Regular Review of Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> has signed a law amending legislation on rulemaking activity, as well as two related decrees. As his press service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pul_1\/20862\">stated<\/a>, the documents are the result of a large-scale review of legislation carried out in 2024\u20132025, during which the legal framework was reduced by about half \u2014 from 170,000 to 94,000 acts.<\/p>\n<p>The key innovation is the introduction of regular legislative reviews. All laws, decrees, and decisions of government bodies will be periodically reassessed, while outdated, duplicate, and ineffective norms will be systematically identified and removed. In addition, the use of complex cross-references will be limited, and when drafting new documents, state bodies together with the Ministry of Economy will assess their impact on business activity.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanisms for official interpretation are also being expanded: ministries and committees will interpret the application of acts they adopted, taking into account citizens\u2019 appeals. A unified register of digital indicators \u2014 limits, coefficients, and indexes \u2014 is also planned. Parliamentary oversight will be strengthened, with the House of Representatives monitoring the timely implementation of norms at the bylaw level.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka also signed two decrees: \u201cOn Rulemaking Activity\u201d and \u201cOn Criminological Expertise.\u201d The first establishes personal responsibility for officials regarding the quality of draft legal acts. The second is intended to improve the effectiveness of criminological expertise by reducing formalism.<\/p>\n<p>The law and decrees will come into force 10 days after their official publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka has signed a law amending legislation on rulemaking activity, as well as two related decrees. As his press service stated, the documents are the result of a large-scale review of legislation carried out in 2024\u20132025, during which the legal framework was reduced by about half \u2014 from 170,000 to 94,000 acts. The key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":495802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e114d1ebcfe.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Signs Law on Regular Review of Legislation"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-534271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}