Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is convinced that the governmental bill on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine regarding public procurement actually rejects the Law on Access to the Public Information in part of control over tender procedures, since it rejects the principles on reporting on the results of tender procedures.
The Deputy Chairman made this statement, commenting on adoption of the bill on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine regarding public procurement (Reg. No.7532) in the first reading.
He emphasised that the bill rejects the principles concerning reports on decline of proposal of tenders, qualification or quotation request, and the result of tenders procedures, tender documentation, protocol of tender offer release, etc. "Soon we will have no information on public procurements at all, while such a situation was not observed even in the worst times", he stressed.
Moreover, M. Tomenko considers this approach shameful with regard to international institutions. "Tthey have lately been teaching us how to fight the corruption, while the Government suggests suspending reports on the results of public procurement", he admitted.
"The Government went in for lobbyists' influence and made a serious mistake. Since the bill, in fact, nullifies democratic and transparent tender procedure", M. Tomenko summed up.