On August 30, the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine started a systematic review of regulations. The first meeting of the working group on this issue with the participation of the First Deputy Minister Vyacheslav Nehoda marked the beginning of this process.
The Head of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) Oleksiy Honcharuk and the head of Construction sector Olena Shulyak who actually is a member of the working group attended this event.
Oleksiy Honcharuk introduced the participants to the general principles of the methodology of systematic assessment of the regulatory environment developed by the BRDO – Rolling Review that experts adopted from the British model by simplifying and adapting it to the Ukrainian context. These practices of BRDO experts became the basis of Guidelines to provide the first stage of the systematic review of regulatory acts – the inventory – approved by the Ministry of Economic Development and the State Regulatory Service.
“According to preliminary estimates of our experts, just the construction sector is regulated by nearly 1,000 legal acts with signs of having a regulatory ground. A comprehensive inventory, in which not only the representatives of the Ministry and the SRS of Ukraine but also our experts will be directly involved, will allow to create grounds to reform the regulatory framework of the construction sector and move to the second stage – directly to the implementation of the new standard of effective regulation by taking into account business interests,” Olena Shulyak summed up the results of the working group.
The working group on the systematic review of regulations established under the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing Services of Ukraine is one of the five groups established at line ministries by order of the First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv to conduct the objective assessment of the regulatory environment, the inventory and cleaning it in the future. This order was the result of the BRDO initiative to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine regarding conducting the systematic review of regulatory legal acts.
After the inventory process is completed, a public plan of systematic review of regulatory acts in the related economy sectors will be approved. The process will take place with the active participation of businesses and the public.
The Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) is an independent analytical center funded by the European Union under the FORBIZ project and as part of the EU4Business Initiative.
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