Draft bill #11074-2 of March 21, 2024
Sponsor: Serhii Vlasenko, MP, Batkivshchyna faction
Status: sent for review to the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Legal Policy
Who is affected: political parties and the National Agency on Corruption Prevention
Summary:
- political parties will not be held accountable for submitting incomplete information about the property, income, expenses, and financial obligations to the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, if such information cannot be obtained from local party organizations located in areas of military hostilities or temporarily occupied territories
- during martial law, governing bodies of political parties will be allowed to terminate their local organizations located in areas of active military hostilities or temporarily occupied territories
- state registration of the termination of a local organization of a political party will have to be carried out no later than three business days after the respective request is submitted
- a political party will have to repay the debts of its terminated local organizations within a month after martial law ends or is cancelled but not before the restoration of Ukraine’s state sovereignty in temporarily occupied territories.
What is right:
- the proposed update is logical, since political parties, like other legal entities, cannot maintain proper paperwork and reporting in areas of active military hostilities. Also, the required data could be lost in temporarily occupied territories
- parties will be able to terminate local party organizations while martial law is declared.
Background information:
On December 26, 2023, the law came into effect on the renewal of party reporting on property, income, expenses, and financial obligations, which had been abolished with the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Additional information: