The Better Regulation Delivery Office together with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade initiated the abolition of 17 permissive documents, 10 of which are proposed for transferring from the control principle to the declarative one.
Currently, this means a number of barriers that take a lot of time and resources of businesses. For example, sometimes it takes up to 45 days to obtain permits. You will need to spend up to 30 days to obtain a declaration of the state sanitary and epidemiological expertise. In addition, the monitoring of intermediary prices shows that the estimated cost of services for assistance in obtaining this declaration is 2.5-3 thousand hryvnas (depending on product types and terms to obtain the declaration). At the same time, we need to consider that no Ukrainian laboratory for sanitary and epidemiological expertise has been certified according to the recognized international ISO 17025 standard that means, none of declarations of such expertise is recognized just by Ukraine.
The draft law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine regarding reducing the number of permissive documents by extending the application of declarative principle” was developed as part of this initiative.
We hope that it will be considered by the Government and submitted to the Verkhovna Rada in February. Its adoption will allow to reduce the state administrative burden on businesses, introduce clear rules for economic entities and minimize their time and financial costs.
Read more about the draft law here.