04 September 2017, 16:15
“The fight against venal practices in Ukrainian energy sector ought to be pursued legally” – Oleksandr Dombrovkyi, the committee deputy head
“We must and shall fight sternly against the corrupt practices which do at times show up in our sector of energy,” he said on September the 4th at a Conciliation Board sitting.
The member of parliament promised soon to submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a series of the draft bills rendering it to be impossible to have acts of corruption in the energy sphere any more. It is all about the draft law on mining industry transparency support, registered under No.6229. Adoption of the law is said to provide a wide public access to comprehensive mining business payments data, generate the context for making annual state-budget payment reports for the whole branch in terms of the income gained by government.
There was also announced the draft bill No.3096-d amending a set of laws streamlining some aspects of the oil-and-gas industry. The goals of the bill are debugging the land allotment procedure for prospecting and mining works, making oil and gas licensing easier which, once combined, could allow it to attract some extra branch investments resulting in growth of domestic oil and gas production.
The Parliament is slating to consider two more draft bills on natural gas commercial accounting (making a unified gas consumers registry (the draft bills No.6391 and 6391-1), both chiefly aimed at launching of the unified gas consumers registry designed for achieving all-round commercial (by check meters) accounting of Ukrainian natural gas.
It was finally pointed out the vital energy laws already adopted have proved to be yet pending since the every single bill requires dozens of side laws (by-laws) to be taken, which seems to be spinning out locally.