Abstract:
The main task of this article is to study the essence and purpose of the institute of criminal
proceedings “conclusion of an agreement in criminal proceedings”, to reveal the application of this
institute of criminal proceedings in practice, to determine its role in legal and social life and to study
the conditions of conclusion of the above agreement for a peaceful resolution of the dispute between
parties. Among the methods by which the problem of the given topic is studied it is possible to
distinguish a dialectic method, comparative-legal, system method, historical-legal, formal-legal method, method of analysis and synthesis. The authors studied the experience of foreign countries in combating
corruption and proposed to introduce international experience in the national legislation for successful
experience of entering into agreements in criminal proceedings, as well as for the effectiveness
of these agreements and maximum compliance with the rights of the parties of the disputes. The
study describes the current state of legal acts regulating the conclusion of agreements, the concept
of agreements in criminal proceedings and their types and the main reasons for the conclusion of
agreements, the terms of the agreement between the parties to criminal proceedings as a wat for
a peaceful resolution of disputes, the stages and elements of the conclusion of agreements. The
participation of the victim in the process of concluding the agreement was also investigated. On the
example of international experience of development and application of this institute the establishment
of the institute and its further development, as well as the conditions of conclusion of the agreement
in such states are investigated.
