The organizer of the round table "NEW CONSTITUTION - WHY? WHEN? HOW?", which took place on March 13, 2008, was the Lutsk city public organization "Center for Political Analysis and Electoral Consulting". \n \n \nThe event was held with the aim of creating conditions for professional discussion of the topic of constitutional reform in Ukraine by politicians, experts and broad circles of the public. During the Round Table, issues were considered concerning the problems of implementing the current Constitution of Ukraine and the possibility of convening a Constitutional Assembly to prepare a new edition of the Constitution of Ukraine for submission for approval by an all-Ukrainian referendum. \n \n \nKey reports during the event were delivered by experts of the organizations united in the Civic Constitutional Committee, namely: Ihor Koliushko, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms, Volodymyr Artemenko, expert of the Institute of Civil Society, Yuliia Kyrychenko, project manager of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms, Denys Kovryzhenko, expert of the Laboratory of Legislative Initiatives, and Volodymyr Horbach, political analyst of the Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. \n \n \nAmong local experts, Valentyn Malynovskyi, head of the Department of the State Service of the Main State Service of Ukraine in the Volyn region, and Viktor Penko, director of the Institute for Analysis of State and Regional Policy, spoke. \n \n \nRepresentatives of local authorities, heads of regional and city organizations of political parties, heads of factions in local councils, leaders of local public organizations, and media representatives also took part in the event. \n \n \nThis event was held within the framework of the implementation of the Civic Constitutional Committee project "Public Participation in the Constitutional Process", which is carried out with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation. \n