Since January, the Interagency Working Group on Deregulation has been analysing permits and licences that hinder business development on a weekly basis. So far, 553 instruments of state regulation of economic activity have been reviewed. In particular, 30% of the reviewed instruments were recommended to be cancelled, and 70% were subject to optimisation.

This was stated by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, in her speech at the National Telethon on April 12.

“When we faced the fuel and food crises at the beginning of the war, we transferred many processes to licensing procedures. Now we want to enshrine the best practices in the law, because business must work during the war. Business, as an economic front, also has to fight, because most of the budget spending today is covered by taxes and fees from Ukrainian business,” said Yuliia Svyrydenko.

According to the First Deputy Prime Minister, the Government is responding to a clear demand from business – there is ongoing interagency work to eliminate outdated and burdensome state regulatory procedures. The Government’s goal is to make these procedures as declarative as possible, and where this is not possible, to digitise them so that they are synchronised with registers and require minimal interaction with people.

In particular, the Government is working on optimising regulatory instruments, transforming state control into a service system (draft law 5837), and creating a legal framework for the expansion of business self-regulation (draft law 4221).