Rada resumes e-declaration and provides open access to declarations

The Verkhovna Rada has resumed electronic declaration and provided open access to the register of declarations.

341 parliamentarians voted for bill No. 9534 with the President's proposals as a whole, with the minimum required 226, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The action of anti-corruption mechanisms is resumed, namely, the submission of relevant declarations and their verification during martial law, and the procedure for submitting relevant declarations is simplified.

Access to declarations must be provided no later than 60 days from the date of entry into force of the law on the restoration of electronic declaration.

Exceptions to the display in the public domain will be the declarations of servicemen of the State Border Guard Service, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, the Administration of State Guard, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations, special police officers participating in hostilities, wounded, prisoners, peacekeepers and people located in the temporarily occupied territories.

Access to their declarations will be possible only after the abolition of martial law.

However, the declarations of military personnel at the posts of ministers and their deputies, heads of central and local executive bodies and their deputies, employees of the administrations of ministries, justice bodies that are part of military medical commissions, medical and flight commissions, employees in territorial recruitment and social support centers engaged in the preparation, organization, procurement of defense goods, works and services will remain open.

The NACP removes declarations from open access on the basis of a letter from the head or deputy head of the state body in which the declarant serves or works.

Officials will be obliged to declare their place of residence even during the war.

For the period before the abolition of martial law, information will not be reflected in the public domain: 1) on the place of actual residence, the registered place of residence of the declaration subject; 2) on settlements where the objects specified in the declaration are located; 3) surnames, names and patronymics of persons specified in the declaration (except for the name of the declaration subject).

An object with a market value of use up to UAH 129,000 (50 living wages) for the entire period of use will not be subject to the declaration.

There is also no liability for officials who forgot to declare property worth up to UAH 1.3 million.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) notes that the law on the resumption of declaration, taking into account the proposals of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, provides for a decrease in the number of declarants by 50,000 people.