Court decisions database (amber)

Court decisions retrieved from the Unified State Register of Court Decisions. 

The search was conducted in the register using contextual queries designed to capture both cases directly related to amber and decisions involving control authorities or legal provisions relevant to the regulation of its circulation. In particular, the search used a query combining references to the basic Law of Ukraine “On State Regulation of Mining, Production and Use of Precious Metals and Precious Stones and Control over Transactions with Them” with the term “amber,” as well as a search using the keywords “State Fiscal Authority” and “amber”.

To ensure high data relevance, an inclusion-exclusion criteria were applied. Only criminal judgments delivered by first-instance courts in the period from 01.01.2018 to 01.08.2025 were included in the final analysis. Cases that were not substantively related to the research subject were excluded from the sample, as were documents reflecting only interim stages of pre-trial investigation or procedural support of a case and therefore lacking sufficient information for the analysis of the offence itself.