PROPOSED UKRAINIAN LAWS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY (2014-2017)

In order to implement its Anti-Corruption Strategy, Ukraine is considering the draft and approval of a number of laws, in particular, on:

• the principles of organization and operation of the specially authorized body responsible for implementing a complex of measures to create and implement the anti-corruption policy;
• creating the specially authorized body in the issues of discovering and investigating corruption-related offences;
• implementing the recommendations of the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) and  increasing the transparency of political party and election campaign financing;
• creating legal foundations of lobbying;
• increasing community control over decision-making by elected officials, in particular, through the mechanism of preliminary community discussion of socially important decisions;
• amending the Law of Ukraine "On Civil Service" adopted in 2011, with regard to suggestions of the SIGMA program;
• conducting inspections of the integrity of public officials;
• amending laws and subordinate normative legal acts in the part of implementing the standards of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises of April 22, 2004, in the work of state-owned companies in Ukraine;
• amending the Constitution and Laws of Ukraine aimed at reforming the judicial system and the status of judges based on European standards;
• amending the Constitution and Laws of Ukraine aimed at reforming the prosecutor's office based on European standards;
• amending the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the part of making it impossible for persons who committed corruption-related offences to be relieved of liability and punishment, in particular, through admission by bail, due to active remorse, probation, etc.; to bring Article 368-2 in correspondence with Article 20 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption; and to implement civil law mechanisms for seizing unlawfully acquired property;
• regulating issues of managing corporate interest and other arrested property in order to preserve its value, and creating a specialized unit (body) authorized to search for property that may be confiscated.