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Members of the Ukrainian parliament are initiating legislation to regulate independent expertise for NABU and SAP. The state must fulfill this requirement under the Ukraine Facility support program.
What bill No. 15569 provides
One of the European Union's conditions for providing funds to Ukraine states the need for independent expertise for anti-corruption bodies. To meet this, the Verkhovna Rada must vote for bill No. 15569.
The bill’s summary says the current model of forensic expert activity in Ukraine does not provide sufficient institutional guarantees for the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. There have been known cases of delays in conducting anti-corruption expert examinations and external influence on experts. The bill’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 Zhelezniak, under the new rules the heads of the anti-corruption bodies will be selected by a competition commission. They will be dismissible only for exhaustive, specific grounds.
In addition, although NABU and SAP will be subordinate to the Ministry of Justice, they will have maximal guarantees of independence. A supervisory board will be created and experts will undergo their own certification.
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Put simply, a qualification will not be revoked because a person is working on an inconvenient case. Thus the initiative is 100% compliant with EU requirements,
– the MP clarified.
The bill will introduce a direct ban on indicating what experts should write in their conclusions. In particular, a separate channel will be created for reporting pressure, there will be a disciplinary chamber of its own, and open methodologies will be maintained in a public register.
If the requirement is met by the end of 2026, then the budget under the Ukraine Facility program will receive 124 million euros.
The Rada is blocking laws needed to receive the Ukraine Facility
Over the 2024–2027 years Ukraine could receive a total of 50 billion euros under the Ukraine Facility program if it fulfills the set requirements. Research by the organization "Holka" showed that among parliamentary factions, Batkivshchyna supports the fewest bills from the plan.
Of the 41 analyzed documents, members of that faction voted "for" in less than 17% of cases, meaning they openly did not support the reforms on this list. This is especially true for environmental protection reforms.
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