Chairman of the Organized Crime Control and Anti-Corruption Committee Viktor Chumak participated in the workshop entitled “The role of Parliament in fighting corruption”

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
19 November 2013, 14:06


The event was organized in Chisinau by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova for the parliaments of Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova on November 18-19, 2013. 

In his speech during the workshop, Viktor Chumak focused attention on cooperation of the Ukrainian Parliament with civil society in order to prevent corruption. He provided information on the work of the Civil Experts Council at the Committee, the activity of Ukrainian national department of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) and on cooperation of the Committee with NGOs when carrying out anti-corruption expertise of the bills.    

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee stressed that “It is due to coordination of actions with civil society and civil anti-corruption activists and due to anti-corruption requirements on the part of the European Union that Ukraine managed to renovate anti-corruption legislation.”

Participants of the event exchanged experience in the sphere of legislative settlement of the conflict of interests, deputy immunity and financing of political parties. The role of parliamentary financial control and cooperation of parliaments with civil society in order to fight corruption were also discussed.