An intentional campaign of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine for the discredit of the Parliament, Parliamentary Coalition and the Government that is being conducted since June 2007, has been supplemented with new charges against these bodies for "the transformation of State purchasing into intricate lobbyist-corruption scheme".
In view of the aforesaid, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Press Service reports|:
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine "On Amending Certain Acts of Legislation of Ukraine Concerning the Purchasing of Goods, Labour and Services for the Public Funds" in December 2006. These amendments to the Law were signed and promulgated by the President of Ukraine. At the same time the Speaker of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine received the letter by the President of Ukraine № 1-1/3 of 5 January 2006, which dwells on the following: the Law adopted by The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 1 December 2006 is aimed at the improvement and simplification of the purchasing scheme and matching it with the WTO requirements; it enables intensification of control over the application of public funds and regulation of the situation in this field.
At the same time, it is noted in the letter that certain statements of the Law provoke objections due to their imperfection, and the scheme of purchasing goods, labour and services for the public funds requires further development for the purpose of application the international experience.
Therefore the President of Ukraine calls for continuation of the work of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the development of the purchasing scheme in order to prepare a new wording of the Law of Ukraine "On the Purchasing of Goods, Labour and Services for the Public Funds" and secure the adoption and promulgation of the relative Law till 15 August 2007.
In view of these facts, the Working Group was formed in The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. On the basis of the registered draft laws, the Working Group prepared the unified Bill, which was adopted as a Law by The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 19 June 2007.
The particular feature of this Law is not only the introduction of more favourable conditions for conducting State purchasing, but also the balancing of State and public control in this field, which is very important in view of the EU requirements to Ukraine, concerning development of democratic society in the country.
In accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine the official text of adopted Law was sent to be signed by the President of Ukraine, but the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine unlawfully rejected receiving it.
These facts give the grounds to assert the following: the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine aims at using the situation with the legislative regulation of purchasing of goods, labour and services for the public funds in the political struggle, the final aim of which is the personal usurpation of State authority and introduction of the unlimited issue of decrees, which violates the Constitution of Ukraine and substitutes the legislative activity.
Thrusting on the public the conviction of absence of legitimate parliament in Ukraine, the President of Ukraine and his company want to take the next step - to assume the function of legislator, instead of implicit fulfillment of the requirements of the Constitution of Ukraine, in which Part 3 of Article 94 unequivocally obliges аthe President of Ukraine to sign and promulgate this Law.
We consider it necessary to place the text photo copies of the Law of Ukraine Amending the Law of Ukraine "On Purchasing of Goods, Labour and Services for the Public Funds" of 19 June 2007 in mass media, in order to let the public know the real situation concerning legislative regulation of the conditions and procedures of purchasing of goods, labour and services for the public funds.