The Parliament registered a draft law #5454 on the cancelation of ‘open-ended’ terms for the provision of administrative services. The Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) actively participated in drafting the document, and Olena Shulyak and 37 other MPs initiated the draft law.
At the beginning of quarantine in 2020, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Aimed to Prevent the Occurrence and Spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19)” #530-IX designed to regulate the terms of providing administrative services during the quarantine.
Under the law, the duration of providing administrative services is suspended from the day when the quarantine was announced. After the quarantine is ended, the service term is extended taking into account the time that has passed before its suspension.
However, due to the long quarantine duration, the terms of providing any administrative and other services have become virtually unlimited, and the documents submitted to obtain the relevant service have been considered for several months.
Thus, providers of administrative services received the ‘right’ to set a deadline for consideration of documents to obtain the relevant administrative service.
Draft law #5454 registered in the Verkhovna Rada proposes to cancel this provision. In particular, it states that quarantine measures introduced for the period necessary to eliminate the epidemic or outbreak of a particularly dangerous infectious disease cannot be a reason for the subjects of administrative services to suspend the terms of providing administrative services prescribed by law.
“Due to temporary quarantine restrictions, the authorities have been given the legal right to process applications for administrative services for an indefinite term, as a result of which Ukrainians suffer every day. During the quarantine, the authorities had sufficient time to organize effective activities in the new conditions. It is time to cancel open-ended terms in the provision of administrative services,” Oleksii Dorogan, BRDO CEO, said.