Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government
11 August 2017, 11:30
Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government
…has processed over 1,300 applications during the 6th plenary session.
The above figure covers applications, claims, reports, proposals, enquiries, e- petitions etc.
The documents related to nearly every side of social life being predominantly beyond the committee’s scope. Notwithstanding, the applications were rightly processed, examined, and answered with proper recommendations and due notices to competent authorities where applicable.
Scheduling of local government snap elections was, for instance, the theme for some a hundred of the mentioned applications; over ninety of them covered the exercise of powers by local bodies, their executives and local councils’ deputies; near eighty papers – touched settlement of the legal status of the temporarily occupied territories; and at least seventy documents were about administrative-territorial system (i.e. renaming of human settlements, changes of and defining new city and region limits, attributing human settlements to urban area class (“city” category), general subjects etc.
Local finances, local government and civil servants’ emoluments were in focus of as much as some sixty applications; integration of territorial communities and its status were the theme of some fifty letters submitted to the committee. Then, over forty claimants rose in writing against excess of or improper discharge of the powers by local authorities, village and town chiefs, principals, mayors. Twenty applications had national symbols and awards of Ukraine on the topic.
As of 12.07.2017, one hundred and ninety-seven direct appeals by citizens have been received over the span of the 6th plenary session.
The claimants’ breakdown by social status according to the applications is as follows:
-Twenty-five – retirees;
-Eleven – civil servants, government-paid employees;
-Ten – unemployed persons;
-Nine – disabled persons;
-Three – entrepreneurs;
-Two – Chornobyl disaster recovery workers.
The subject scope of the applications has nearly spanned over the entire purview of the committee:
-Activity of local government and executive bodies – eighty-one papers,
-State building and administrative-territorial system – sixty-eight papers,
-State supreme force activities – thirty-four papers;
-Law and order matters – twenty-five papers,
-Communal services, housing policies – thirteen documents,
-Agrarian, land, environmental policies – nine documents,
-Social protection, labour and pay – six applications,
-Defences, sovereignty and interstate relations – four applications,
-Other – four applications.