The Verkhovna Rada adopted as a whole the draft law #3153 that provides for extending a moratorium on business inspections to December 31, 2017.
The moratorium doesn’t apply to scheduled activities of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine regarding verifying the food quality and safety.
“The temporary moratorium on business inspections is the most controversial decision, which, however, will reduce an administrative burden on businesses for some time. In general, such moratoriums have nothing in common with the “effective regulation”. However, currently, it is an anesthesia, which is necessary to allow the business to operate normally while the inspection system is changing,” the head of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) Oleksiy Honcharuk commented on the draft law.
According to this document, regulatory bodies carry out unplanned activities only in consultation and coordination with the State Regulatory Service, upon an enterprise’s own request on inspection, on the basis of a court decision or in case of an industrial accident until December 31, 2017.
Unscheduled inspections can be also carried out upon an individual’s request on violating his legitimate rights by a business entity. The State Regulatory Service should consider and approve such a request.
Under the law, only such bodies as the NKREKP, the State Commission for Securities and Stock Market, UKRINFORM, the State Financial Inspection and its territorial bodies, the State Service of Export Control of Ukraine, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine and its territorial bodies, the state air service, the NBU and the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine can be exceptions for the regulation by law.
Source: delo.ua