Public Integrity Council (Громадська рада доброчесності)#

Civic Advisory Body for Judicial Integrity Vetting in Ukraine

The Public Integrity Council (Ukrainian: Громадська рада доброчесності, abbreviated ГРД; English: PIC) is a civic advisory body established in 2016 as part of Ukraine’s post-2014 judicial reform. Its formal mandate is to assist in the qualification assessment of Ukrainian judges and judicial candidates by evaluating their compliance with standards of professional ethics and integrity.

This profile documents the Council’s adoption and application of institutional criteria that equate travel to temporarily occupied Crimea with travel to the Russian Federation — effectively embedding de facto recognition of Russian jurisdiction over the peninsula into Ukraine’s judicial governance framework.