Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Volodymyr Groysman gives 3 working days to elaborate calendar plan for consideration of legislative acts on decentralization of power

Press Service
05 October 2015, 16:11

Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman has given three days to elaborate the calendar plan for the consideration of top-priority legislative acts on decentralization of power.

At the meeting that took place on Monday with the participation of members of the Ukrainian Government, representatives of non-government organizations and experts and that was dedicated to important issues of decentralization of power, the Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada noted that the decentralization amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine were of "high-quality" and pointed out the importance of further implementation of constitutional amendments in the form of legislative acts.

He said that "full-scale financial decentralization" has already taken place in Ukraine. He noted further constitutional amendments were still required, in particular, the ones touching upon the decentralization of power — transfer of the authorities to the local level.

Groysman drew attention to the importance of the draft laws the Verkhovna Rada should pass the first. The Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada also offered to elaborate a draft law on the service in the local self-government bodies, which, in his words, "should become an example for further reformation of the whole state service."

Groysman requested the members of the Government to as soon as possible provide control indicators of the state budget for 2016 taking in account the necessity for timely formation of local budgets. He noted that it would also facilitate the calculation of subventions to support the existing unified territorial communities. "We will encourage local self-government," Groysman said.

The participants of the meeting noted the presence of 159 unified territorial communities in Ukraine at which local elections had already been called. Particular attention was paid to the necessity for settlement of a number of problems they face.

Following the results of the meeting, the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat along with the Ukrainian Government will have to elaborate the calendar plan and determine the executors in the following fields:

— elaboration of draft laws on the development of constitutional decentralization amendments;

— elaboration of draft laws that envision transfer of authorities from central state bodies to local self-government bodies less amendments to the Basic Law;

— passportization of the unified territorial communities in order to determine their primary needs in medical, social, and socio-educational sectors;

— elaboration of the set of regulatory-legal acts that regulate the work of unified territorial communities.