Participants in the parliamentary hearings "Decentralization of Power in Ukraine. Expanding the Rights of Local Self-Government" recommend that the Verkhovna Rada refine the draft law on amending the Constitution of Ukraine regarding the improvement of the local self-government system 3207-1, which should resolve issues of the administrative-territorial structure and the status of local state administrations. This is stated in the draft recommendations proposed for adoption based on the results of the relevant parliamentary hearings.
As reported by a LIGABusinessInform correspondent, the participants of the meeting also recommend that parliament improve the legislative regulation of local elections, as well as adopt during 2005-2006 a set of normative-legal acts on carrying out reforms in Ukraine aimed at developing effective local self-government.
Parliament is also recommended to adopt by July of next year laws on issues of the territorial structure of Ukraine, local self-government, local state administrations, and service in local self-government bodies.
In addition, the participants of the parliamentary hearings recommend that the President of Ukraine hold a meeting of the National Council on State Building, Local Self-Government and Regional Development, at which to discuss and adopt the concept of reforming public administration in Ukraine.
The participants of the parliamentary hearings recommend that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submit to the National Council on State Building, Local Self-Government and Regional Development the Concept of Reforming Public Administration in Ukraine.
The draft recommendations of the parliamentary hearings "Decentralization of Power in Ukraine. Expanding the Rights of Local Self-Government" emphasize that the system of territorial organization of power in Ukraine is experiencing a deep systemic crisis, the main sign of which is the inability of government bodies to ensure effective management of the most important social processes in the state and, thus, the normal existence of a person.
The document also emphasizes that the current system of state administration in Ukraine is ineffective, prone to corruption, contradictory and extremely centralized, closed off from society and detached from the needs of the ordinary person.
The participants of the hearings also note that the centralized model of state administration is incapable of ensuring the normal existence of a person. At the same time, it is emphasized that it is precisely the principle of decentralization of power and strong institutions of local self-government that are the foundation of the organization of power in developed countries.