Ukraine’s national regulatory framework is seriously littered with unnecessary, illegal and simply non-working documents. The Better Regulation Delivery Office estimates that there are about 35% of such documents. This creates additional barriers to the development of the investment environment and increases business costs to work in the regulatory field.
In order to objectively assess the regulatory field, conduct an inventory and clean it out, the BRDO proposed the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine to conduct a systematic review of regulatory legal acts. The First Vice-Prime minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv supported this initiative by signing the relevant order.
The systematic review of regulatory acts will cover agriculture and food security, construction, energy, transport and infrastructure, IT and telecommunications. It is planned to establish working groups that will start to review existing regulations soon in order to organize the review process in relevant ministries.
Working groups will report the results this September. Further decisions on regulations that require to be amended, recognized as invalid or abolished will be taken in accordance with established procedure. The Ministry of Economic Development will be responsible for coordination.
The Better Regulation Delivery Office is convinced that this step will allow to move to the creation of a fundamentally new regulatory environment, which will be focused on the best practices and have the effective measurability, in the country by joint efforts of the authorities, experts and all stakeholders.
For reference
The Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) has developed a unique method of regular reviews of regulatory acts – Rolling Review. The world’s best regulatory practices have been taken into account while developing the methodology that allowed to get the latest results.
In general, the analysis of the regulatory environment by using the Rolling Review method is conducted in five sectors: agriculture and food security, construction, energy, transport and communication, control and supervision.
All regulatory acts are reviewed by a number of criteria, among which there are legality, necessity, corruption risks, impact on businesses, regulation costs and efficiency.
More details on the methodology and results of the acts review conducted by the BRDO experts can be found here.