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Members of Ukraine’s parliament are initiating legislation to regulate independent expertise for NABU and SAP. The state must meet this requirement under the Ukraine Facility support program.
What draft law No.15569 provides
One of the European Union’s conditions for disbursing funds to Ukraine concerns the need for independent expertise of anti-corruption bodies. For this, the Verkhovna Rada must vote for draft law No.15569.
The draft law’s description states that the current model of forensic expert activity in Ukraine does not provide sufficient institutional guarantees of independence for the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. There have been known cases of delays in conducting corruption-related examinations and outside influence on experts. The draft law’s goal is to reorganize the Research Center for Independent Forensic Examinations of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
According to one of the bill’s authors, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, under the new rules the director of the anti-corruption bodies should be selected by a competition commission. He can be dismissed only for exhaustive grounds.
In addition, although NABU and SAP will be subordinated to the Ministry of Justice, they will have maximal guarantees of independence. A supervisory board will be created and experts will undergo their own attestation.
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Simply put, a qualification will not be withdrawn because a person is working on an inconvenient case. Thus the initiative is 100% compliant with EU requirements,
– the MP clarified.
The draft law will introduce a direct ban on indicating what experts should write in their conclusions. In particular, a separate channel for reporting pressure will be created, there will be a disciplinary chamber of its own, and open methodologies will be available in a public registry.
If the requirement is met by the end of 2026, then the Ukraine Facility program will channel 124 million euros into the budget.
Laws to obtain the Ukraine Facility are being blocked in the Rada
Over the 2024–2027 years Ukraine can receive a total of 50 billion euros under the Ukraine Facility program, if it meets the specified requirements. Research by the organization "Holka" showed that among the Verkhovna Rada factions, "Batkivshchyna" supports the fewest draft laws from the plan.
Out of the 41 analyzed documents, representatives of that faction voted "for" in less than 17% of cases, thus openly not supporting the reforms on that list. This is especially true for environmental protection reforms.
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