Procedure of an effective regulation is to become an essential part of creation of the favorable investment climate in Ukraine, says Stepan Kubiv
A
“deregulation day”, which has resulted in the abolition of more than 100
obsolete restrictive regulations, was held at the Cabinet of Ministers of
Ukraine Friday on the initiative of First Vice Prime
Minister Stepan Kubiv and
the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine. In
particular, there have been decided to annul 44 acts of the Cabinet of
Ministers and other central executive authorities in the sphere of state
supervision (control), which in practice would mean a reduction in the number of
business inspections by various agencies. These measures of state
supervision (control) have lost their applicability or are no longer provided
by the last version of the Law of Ukraine "On the basic principles of
the state supervision (control) in the field of economic activity”.
“The
excessive regulatory pressure does not facilitate the work of entrepreneurs and
does not help the security. The further establishment of effective regulation
should become a vital part of creation of the favorable investment climate in
Ukraine”, commented on the decision of the Government Stepan
Kubiv.
First
Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Maksym Nefyodov highlighted that
a package of deregulatory initiatives that have a significant impact on the
business development had been prepared with the help of experts of the Better
Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) established with the support of the Ministry
of Economy and the Group of Strategic Advisors on the Support for Reforms.
“Some of the documents will be completely abolished, others – will be revised
in such a way to better meet modern requirements. This is a hard and important
work, and today we have made a significant contribution in it”, noted Maksym Nefyodov.
Moreover,
the Government agreed on a draft resolution of the Ministry of Economic
Development and Trade of Ukraine, which brings the national lists of dual-use
goods into compliance with international practice (in particular, the lists of
dual-use goods, adopted in the framework of international export control
regimes, the participant of which is Ukraine).
“The
decision provides a more distinctive legal framework for the procedures of
customs clearance of goods”, underlined First Deputy Minister of Economic
Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov.
“This includes, for instance, portable x-ray apparatuses and conventional
endoscopes for the import of which there was earlier necessary a separate
permit. I emphasize the decision concern not only import but also export of
Ukrainian goods, and therefore facilitates the boost of Ukrainian industry. The
annual total cost of 53 groups of goods which undergo exemption from excessive
control makes up nearly1.8 billion dollars.”
The
Government has also updated the procedure for issuing architectural licenses,
eliminating the practice of recognizing illegal the perpetuity of the license.
Now the licensing of economic activities concerning the creation of
architectural objects shall be implemented pursuant to the procedure determined
in the Law of Ukraine “On licensing of certain types of economic activity”
which includes the following:
- the license is not limited in time;
- the cost of license makes up 1 minimum subsistence wage by the date when a decision of license issuance is made;
- the list of documents submitted to a licensing body to obtain the license is regulated by the provisions of Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “Matters of Licensing for Construction of Objects of IV and V Categories of the Complexity”, dated 30 March 2016, No.256.