First Deputy Minister of CMU: Government fixes norms which afford avoiding corruption just on the stage of preparing documents
The
Cabinet of Ministers is working on designing of norms which are called to exclude
corrupt actions starting from the stage of preparing Governmental acts. It will
enable to avoid variations in interpretation of norms and rules and,
respectively, won’t create grounds for violations by officials, the First
Deputy Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleh Parakuda stressed.
“We should
determine simple and understandable rules of work for officials, envisage
transparent appeal procedures. But the most important is unavoidability for the
official to be answerable in case instances of abuse are determined,” explained
First Deputy Minister Oleh Parakuda
and added in the largest number of cases corrupt acts can be revealed in the process
of elaborating documents, but not in the process of realization of the
documents – it will give chance to economize time, efforts and governmental
funds.
According
to the First Deputy Minister, among the most efficient tools to curb corruption
there could become a change of model of rendering administrative services that
are provided exceptionally through high cost non-government mediators. The international
experience demonstrates that e-government technologies facilitate improvement of
efficiency and quality of administrative services, curbing corruption, reducing
administrative burden for the citizens and business, and strengthening democracy
and competitiveness of the country in whole.
“Administrative
services should be provided on available, simple, reliable basis, with usage of
Internet, and all these will exclude contact between official and consumer of a
service. Such practice has proved its value in the majority of European states,”
the First Deputy Minister informed.
According to
him, electronization of administrative services has
been held during certain time in Ukraine and the task of the Government is to
introduce broadly this approach on all levels of rendering services.