Ukrainian govt endorses state anticorruption program

MOSCOW. March 14 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has endorsed a state anticorruption program for 2023-2025, Ukrainian media have reported.

The government directive obliges ministries, other central and local executive agencies, state enterprises, institutions, and organizations to submit reports on the implementation of measures stipulated by the state anticorruption program to the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) annually before February 15 and July 15.

The NAPC has been instructed to ensure within the timeframe stipulated by the program the approval of a procedure coordinating the implementation of the Anticorruption Strategy for 2021-2025; a procedure for monitoring and evaluating the efficiency of the implementation of the anticorruption strategy and the program; a procedure obliging ministries, other central and local executive agencies, state enterprises, institutions, and organizations to provide statistical information on the results of the work; a statute of an information system for monitoring the implementation of the state anticorruption policy.

In addition, the NAPC has been instructed to submit to the Cabinet a draft act endorsing the personal composition of a coordinating working group on an anticorruption policy; coordinate the implementation of the Anticorruption Strategy and the program; approve by July 1, 2023 a procedure for publishing on its official website the results of monitoring and evaluating the efficiency of the state anticorruption policy as of the period before the launch of the information system for monitoring the implementation of the state anticorruption policy; monitor and evaluate the efficiency of the implementation of the Anticorruption Strategy; annually inform the government on the results of the implementation of the program's measures before April 1; submit a national report on the efficiency of the implementation of the state anticorruption program to the Cabinet, the Verkhovna Rada, and the president no later than April 1, 2026; continue working together with the European Commission in collaboration with agencies concerned to obtain budget support for implementing the program's measures.

The adoption of an anticorruption program, along with other measures in this field, is among the preconditions of Ukraine's membership of the European Union, which Kiev is striving for.