The purpose of the article is to clarify the features of the theory and practice of judicial control over compliance with the procedure for amending the Constitution of Ukraine, taking into account foreign experience. From this purpose, the authors leave the following task: 1) to compare models of judicial constitutional control over the procedure for amending the constitution; 2) to characterize the preliminary (preliminary) and subsequent (additional) control for the procedure for amending the constitution; 3) to establish the most important position of the body of constitutional jurisdiction of Ukraine, developed by it in the practice of preliminary (preliminary) and subsequent (subsequent) normative control when amending the Constitution of Ukraine regarding the continuation of the procedure for amending the Constitution of Ukraine. It is proved that the Ukrainian model of judicial control over compliance with the procedure for amending the Constitution of Ukraine has the following specifics. First, it has both preliminary (preliminary) and subsequent (additional) control. Secondly, the last (next) tends to the self-proclaimed powers of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Thirdly, the preliminary control procedures in practice have so far led only to individual refusals to open proceedings if the relevant application was filed with violations.

I did not state any problems with the procedural aspects of the formula of immutability, which is enshrined in Articles 157 and 158 of the Constitution of Ukraine, or in all procedures within the framework of the preliminary (preliminary) control of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in my conclusions, I focus mainly on issues of restriction of rights and freedoms (i.e., material verification).If we talk about the conditions of martial law, recently the Constitutional Court of Ukraine has preferred simple avoidance of control rather than the need to state in its conclusion the presence of a violation of the requirements of Part 2 of Article 157 regarding the impossibility of making changes under martial law. Fourthly, the subsequent (additional control) was carried out twice (2010 and 2022), and in all cases the subject of the inspection was precisely the procedure for making changes.

And if the 2010 decision established a violation of the procedure, then the 2022 decision did not state the violated procedure. The position of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in the decision of November 1, 2022 is characterized, according to the conclusion of September 30, 2010, by the recognition of the order with procedural, as well as the possibility of material subsequent review.

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