REGULATIONS
on the Editorial Board of
“Journal of the National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine”

1. General provisions

1.1. The founder of the professional scientific theoretical and practical edition “Journal of the National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine” (the Journal) is the National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine (the Academy).

1.2. The editorial board of the Journal (the Editorial Board) is a collective advisory body, which defines journal policy on objective coverage of and informing the public about the results of relevant scientific research in the field of legal sciences conducted by Ukrainian and foreign scholars, scientific and education workers of higher education and academic institutions, prosecutors, representatives of state authorities and other establishments, as well as young scientists.

1.3. The Editorial Board operates in alignment with the Constitution of Ukraine, the Laws of Ukraine “On the Public Prosecutor’s Office”, “On Information”, “On Print Media (Press) in Ukraine”, “On Publishing”, the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “On Approval of Procedure to Form the List of Scientific Professional Publications of Ukraine”, the Charter of the Academy, and the Regulations on the Editorial Board of “Journal of the National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine” (the Regulations).

1.4. These Regulations establish the procedure for creation and composition of the Editorial Board, rights and obligations of its members, the procedure for convening and holding meetings of the Editorial Board, as well as the decision-making process.

2. Procedure for creation and composition of the Editorial Board

2.1. The Editorial Board is created to manage the Journal, i.e. to ensure independent qualitative peer review of materials submitted by scientists conducting research in the field of legal sciences and having in the past three years not less than one publication in editions, included in the List of Scientific Professional Publications of Ukraine (the List), or foreign editions included in the Web of Science Core Collection and (or) Scopus, or having monographs/parts of monographs published by international publishing houses of A, B, or C type according to the Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE), to ensure integration of the Journal into the world scientific community

2.2. The Editorial Board consisting of the editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, executive secretary, and its members is created by the decision of the Academic Board of the Academy and approved by the order of the Rector of the Academy

2.3. The Editorial Board consists of:

• 2.3.1. minimum seven scientists holding scientific degree in law, including the editor-in-chief, and having not less than three publications in the past five years or at least seven publications (articles, monographs, parts of monographs in the field of legal sciences) in the past fifteen years (with at least one publication in the last three years), which were published in two different editions included in the List, or foreign editions included in the Web of Science Core Collection and (or) Scopus, or having monographs/parts of monographs published by international publishing houses of A, B, or C type according to the Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE);
• 2.3.2. minimum three scientists having the main workplace in Ukrainian academic or higher education institution;
• 2.3.3. minimum one scientist having the main workplace in foreign academic or higher education institution.

3. Powers of the editor-in-chief

3.1. Manages the work of the Editorial Board in accordance with these Regulations.

3.2. Convenes regular and extraordinary meetings of the Editorial Board, defines their venue and time, presides over these meetings.

3.3. Initiates the remove of the Editorial Board member in case s/he has not attended the meetings several consecutive times for no apparent reason.

3.4. Signs the minutes of the Editorial Board meetings.

3.5. Evaluates the content of the forthcoming issue of the Journal at least once a week.

3.6. Assigns the members of the Editorial Board (asks the external scientists) to review manuscripts taking into account the spheres of their academic interest.

3.7. Determines the order and time frame for review of manuscripts.

3.8. Suggests publishing the reviewed manuscripts in the forthcoming issue of the Journal.

3.9. Analyses the work of the Editorial Board, proposes suggestions on its improvement.

3.10. Represents the Journal in relations with other editorial boards and at social functions, industry events, other meetings.

4. Rights and duties of the Editorial Board member

4.1. Members of the Editorial Board have the following rights to:

• 4.1.1. suggest amendments and supplements to these Regulations and draft decisions of the Editorial Board meetings;
• 4.1.2. suggest putting issues on the agenda of regular and extraordinary meetings of the Editorial Board;
• 4.1.3. receive materials necessary to study the issues on the agenda of the Editorial Board meeting;
• 4.1.4. speak out about the issues on the agenda, personally vote for the draft decisions of the Editorial Board.

4.2. The executive secretary is obliged to:

• 4.2.1. provide the editor-in-chief with the information on the content of the forthcoming issue of the Journal at least once a week;
• 4.2.2. draft the plan of the forthcoming issue of the Journal;
• 4.2.3. manage the meetings of the Editorial Board, i.e. draft documents, inform the members of the Editorial Board on time and place of the meetings, draft minutes, inform the members of the Editorial Board on the decision of the meetings;
• 4.2.4. carry out other tasks of the editor-in-chief concerning the work of the Editorial Board.

4.3. The members of the Editorial Board are obliged to:

• 4.3.1. attend the meetings of the Editorial Board, in case it is impossible – inform the editor-in-chief on the reasons;
• 4.3.2. comply with the decisions of the Editorial Board regardless of personal voting;
• 4.3.3. suggest proposals to the plan of the forthcoming issues of the Journal;
• 4.3.4. review manuscripts on the instructions of the editor-in-chief depending on the spheres of their academic interest;
• 4.3.5. provide written reviews of manuscripts with one of the following conclusions: the manuscript can be recommended for publishing; the manuscript needs further revision; the manuscript cannot be recommended for publishing.

5. The procedure to convene the Editorial Board meetings

5.1. The regular meetings of the Editorial Board are held four times a year to approve the publication plan of each issue of the Journal and its subsequent recommendation for printing and distributing via the Internet by the Academic Board of the Academy, as well as to consider other related issues.

5.2. Each member of the Editorial Board has the right to initiate an extraordinary meeting before the editor-in-chief in writing stating the valid reason.

5.3. The executive secretary informs the members on the agenda, time, and place of each regular or extraordinary meeting of the Editorial Board.

6. Procedure to conduct the meeting and make decisions

6.1. The editor-in-chief presides over the meeting of the Editorial Board. In case of his/her absence the meeting is chaired by the deputy editor-in-chief or one of the members of the Editorial Board.

6.2. The meeting of the Editorial Board is competent if the majority of its members who are employees of the Academy are present, otherwise it is considered to have not happened, and the editor-in-chief has the right to postpone the meeting for the near future.

6.3. The Editorial Board makes a decision by the majority of votes of the present members.

6.4. Members of the Editorial Board absent at the meeting cannot transfer the voting right to others.

6.5. The executive secretary takes the minutes of the meeting, the editor-in-chief and the executive secretary sign the minutes.