Parliamentary guide to important and memorable dates – October 2012

Verkhovna Rada

Composition and structure

• VRU Chairman
• VRU Leadership
• The People's Deputies of Ukraine
• Deputy Factions and Groups
• The layout of deputies' factions and groups in the session hall
• VRU committees
• VRU committees' websites
• Temporary commissions
• The Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• The website of the Human Resources Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• The website of the Department for Citizens’ Appeals of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• The website of the Research Service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Making laws

Draft laws

• Search by attributes
• Legislative drafting rules and major requirements to lawmaking techniques
• Registered over the week elapsed
• Provided to MPs
• Under consideration at committees
• Passed during the current session

Planning and order of consideration

• The schedule of sessions of the Parliament
• Order of business of a session
• Timetable for plenary sittings
• Plenary sittings agendas
• Weekly schedules for committee sittings

Conciliation commissions

• Electronic protocol
• Transcripts of conciliation commissions

Consideration of agenda items

• Course of plenary sittings
• The schedule of sessions of the Parliament
• Consideration chronology
• Consideration results
• Electronic protocol
• Voting statistics for a given period
• Latest information
• Transcripts of plenary sittings
• Verbatim bulletins of plenary sittings

Parliamentary hearings

• Conducting parliamentary hearings
• Current news of parliamentary hearings

Latest information

• VRU past week's enactments
• VRU past week's submissions from President of Ukraine
• VRU past week's submissions from Cabinet of Ministers

Legislation

Regulatory and legal framework of Ukraine

• Ukrainian legislation
• Search by attributes
• Latest additions of parliamentary enactments
• International documents
• Translation of EU legal acts
• Popular documents
• Initial acts of law
• Breakdown by VRU committees
• Act summaries in English
• Legislative glossary
• Legislation of AR Crimea

Legal framework of parliamentary activities

• Constitution of Ukraine
• Law on Verkhovna Rada’s rules of procedure
• Law on status of a Ukrainian parliamentarian
• Law on VRU committees
• VRU Administration regulations
• Complete list of documents

Activities

Control activities

• Parliamentary queries and interpellations | Search by attributes

International activity

• International parliamentary organizations
• Verkhovna Rada’s permanent delegations
• Inter-parliamentary assemblies
• Joint inter-parliamentary commissions
• MP groups of inter-parliamentary relations with foreign states
• National parliaments Database P

European integration

• EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

Government cleansing

• General information
• Arsenal of legal instruments VRU Administration is guided by in verifying facts of imposing bans specified by the Law of Ukraine “On government cleansing”
• List of staff posts and persons under verification

Corruption prevention and counteraction

• Anti-corruption enactments
• Legislative, organizational and regulatory corruption-prevention instruments of VRU Administration
• Information and reference material

Financial and household activities

• Budget inquiries
• Budget programmes profiles
• Government procurement
• Recovery for MPs’ rental expenses
• Miscellaneous

The public

Participation in parliamentary business

• Electronic petitions
• Public discussion of bills
• e-Cabinet of a citizen

Citizens’ appeals

• The website of the Department for Citizens’ Appeals of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• e-Form
• Contact us:

Information enquiries | References and forms

• Arsenal of legal instruments VRU Administration is guided by in dealing with issues of access to public information
• Accessory materials on access to public information
• Reports

Public service at VRU Administration

• Competition for vacant positions

Reference information

• Public policy life-cycle
• VRU key dates timetable
• Guided tours and expositions regulations
• High Council of Justice’s candidate list
• List of candidates for the position of judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
• Formation of Ukrainian nationhood
• Constitutional process in Ukraine

Press office

• Press office