Article 48. Terms of Application of Disciplinary Sanctions

The measure of disciplinary sanction shall be applied immediately, but not later than one month from the date of discovery of the disciplinary misconduct.

Disciplinary measures cannot be applied during the period:

temporary disability of a public civil servant;

vacation or business trip of a public civil servant;

release of a public civil servant from the performance of official duties for the duration of the performance of duties related to an emergency situation or military service;

retraining, advanced training and education of a public civil servant.

The period for applying a disciplinary sanction shall be suspended until the expiration of the periods provided for by part two of this article.

A disciplinary sanction may be applied no later than six months from the day the disciplinary offense was committed, and based on the results of a checking, inspection of financial and economic activities or an audit, no later than two years from the day it was committed. The above time limits shall not include the time of criminal proceedings.

A disciplinary sanction shall be valid for one year from the date of its application. If during this period a new measure of disciplinary sanction is not applied to a civil servant, they are considered not to have a disciplinary sanction. In this respect, the term of the disciplinary sanction shall expire automatically without the relevant decision of the head of the state body.

The head of the state body shall have the right to remove the disciplinary sanction ahead of schedule on own initiative, at the petition of the direct supervisor of the public civil servant, trade union (if available), as well as at the request of the public civil servant.