The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe in co-operation with the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan organised an international conference entitled “Models of constitutional complaints in Central Asian countries” on 25-26 May 2023 in Samarkand.

The event gathered more than 80 participants, including high-level representatives from the Constitutional Courts of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Europe.

The participants shared their experience and a number of best practices in the field of constitutional control, highlighting the role of individual constitutional complaint as an effective mechanism for the protection of the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens.

Council of Europe experts from France, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia contributed through their presentations of several European systems models of constitutional review.

This conference was organised in the framework of the Central Asia Rule of Law Programme 2020-2023, which is financed by the Council of Europe and the European Union and is implemented by the Council of Europe.