Article 201. Minutes

Minutes of the court session shall be drawn up at the court session and also when performing separate procedural actions outside the hall of the court session.

The minutes of the court session shall specify:

1) year, month, day and place of holding the court session;

2) name of the court considering the case, composition of the court and secretary of the court session;

3) name and number of the case;

4) data about the appearance of the persons participating in the case and other participants of the court proceedings;

5) data on explaining to the persons participating in the case and other participants of the court proceedings of their procedural laws and procedural duties by the court;

6) rulings issued by the court on the bench without retiring to a separate room (deliberation room);

7) oral statements and petitions of the persons participating in the case;

8) information on all material, written, and digital evidence, as well as written expert opinions submitted to the court during the consideration of the case;

9) information on the explanations of the persons participating in the case, the testimony of witnesses, oral explanations of experts regarding their opinions, the views of specialists, as well as the inspection, seizure, mapping, video recording, and photographing of material, written, and digital evidence;

10) data obtained during the performance of separate procedural actions;

11) description of the court pleadings and the opinion of the public prosecutor;

12) data on announcement of the judgment, ruling or resolution of the court.

The minutes of the court session may also specify other data.

In case of an audio or video recording of the court session, the minutes of the court session shall have a record only on the issues provided by items 1 — 4, 6 — 8, 11 of part two of this article, specify the time of starting and ending of explanations of the persons participating in the case, witness testimonies, oral explanations by experts of their conclusions, pleadings and opinion of the public prosecutor, and also a notice on using audio recording means at the court session. Electronic or other carriers of audio and video records shall be adducted to the minutes of the court session.

In the case of holding a court session in the videoconference mode, the minutes of the court session shall also specify, in addition to the data provided for in part two of this article: