The Committee on Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption recommends the Parliament to adopt the Bill "On Fundamentals of Fighting and Prevention of Corruption in Ukraine"
23 December 2010, 09:03
The bill (Reg.
No7487) defines pursuant to the world
anti-corruption standards Twenty Guiding Principles in the
Fight against Corruption, UN Convention against Corruption, European Convention against corruption, a number of measures
to be taken
to prevent corruption, namely with involvement of the society,
provision of transparency in public sector, establishes restrictions in the activity
of corruption violations subjects and also introduced
a number of amendments to the
Code ion Administrative Infringements, Criminal Code of
Ukraine, Code of Criminal Procedures
of Ukraine and Law "On
State Service in Ukraine."
The bill establishes the following corrupt practices subjects:
President of Ukraine, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, First Deputy and Deputy Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Prime Minister, First Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers, Ministers, other heads of the central bodies of executive power that are not in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, their assistants, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Head of the court of Auditors, Ombudsman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea;
People´s Deputies, Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, Deputies of the local councils;
Personnel of the Administration of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada Secretariate, members of the Cabinet of Ministers, Heads of the Local State Administrations;
State officials, local self government officials;
military officials of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other formations pursuant to the laws of military formations;
judges of the Constitutional Court, other professional judges, Head, members, discipline investigators of the Supreme Qualification Commission of Judges, Secretariat officials of this Commission, Head, Deputy Head, Secretaries of the section of the Supreme Council of Justice and also other members of the Supreme Council of Justice, people's assessor and excused jurors;
junior enlisted and senior officers of internal affairs bodies, tax policy, correctional system, civil defence bodies and subdivisions, State Fixed-Satellite Service and data confidentiality service;
officials and officers of the prosecution bodies, diplomatic service, customs service, state tax service;
members of the Central Election Commission, personnel of the Secretariat of the Central Election Commission, Manager Service of the State Register of Voters.
Officials and officers of the other state power bodies and local self-government;
Members of the district/territorial election commissions;
heads of the non-governmental organizations that are partially funded at the expense of state or local budgets etc.
Furthermore, it was stated that the bill "protects the right to free venturing, guarantees by the Fundamental Law of the State and excludes sole proprietors form the list of those that might be called to an account for the corrupt practices, since this category has nothing in common with the public service and is not funded at the expense of the state or local budgets."
The bill establishes the Single State Register of Corrupt Practice Subjects - single data base with information on all the citizens called to account for the corrupt practice.
The bill envisages the amendments to the Code on Administrative Infringements, Criminal and Criminal-Procedural Codes.