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Timestamp: 2019-04-26 16:22:36+00:00

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1. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the system of public executive authorities shall consist of the Cabinet of Minister of Ukraine, central public executive authorities, the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Crimean Republic, and local public executive authorities.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (the Government of Ukraine) shall be the highest authority in the system of public executive authorities.
3. Central public executive authorities shall be public executive authorities set up in accordance with the Constitution and laws of Ukraine with the competence in the defined public administration sectors extending to the entire territory of the state. Central public executive authorities shall be set up in the form of ministries, governmental bodies or public authorities with special status established by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine.
4. Local public executive authorities shall be public executive authorities set up in accordance with the Constitution and laws of Ukraine with the competence extending to the territory of individual administrative and territorial units. Local public executive authorities shall include local state administrations and territorial offices of central public executive authorities.
5. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall exercise its executive power directly and through ministries, other central public executive authorities, governmental bodies, the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Crimean Republic, and local state administrations. It shall direct, coordinate, and control the operation of these authorities.
6. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be responsible to the President of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, as well as controlled by and accountable to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine within the limits envisaged by the Constitution of Ukraine.
The term “political responsibility” shall mean resignation of the entire composition of any public authority (collective political responsibility) or an individual occupying public political office (personal political responsibility) due to loss of political support resulting from the assessment of the implementation of the declared political programme and principles of public policy.
6) proper functioning of the public service system.
10) prevention of the conflict of interests – members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and other officials of public executive authorities shall not participate in the adoption of decisions which are or may be related to their personal interests or interests of their close relatives.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall act as a collective body. It shall make decisions upon discussion of relevant issues at its meetings, if another is not envisaged hereby.
1. Organisation, powers, and operation procedures of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and other public executive authorities shall be set by the Constitution, this and other laws of Ukraine.
2. In the cases envisaged by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and other public executive authorities shall be also governed by acts of the President of Ukraine and resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
3. In accordance with the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall approve the Rules of Procedure of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and determine other operational issues.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be located in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall include the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the First Deputy Prime Minister, and not more than three Vice Deputy Prime Ministers of Ukraine.
2. On the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine may appoint ministers heading no ministries. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may have not more than two such ministers.
3. The total number of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be determined by the office composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the basis of the submission on appointment of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in accordance with Parts 1-3 of Article 8 hereof.
4. Offices of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be political. The civil service and labour legislation shall not extend to the members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
5. The status of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be defined by the Constitution, this and other laws of Ukraine. No offices within public executive authorities may be equalled by their status to members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
6. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be formed not later than within sixty days after the resignation of the previous Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or preterm termination of its powers.
1. Individuals entitled to be appointed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be Ukrainian citizens, who hold the right to vote and a university degree, and speak the state language. Individuals, who have a previous conviction for commitment of an intentional crime with such conviction not having been cleared in accordance with the procedure set by law, cannon not be appointed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall not combine their service activities with any other work (excluding pedagogical, research, and creative work after working hours), be a member of a management body or a supervisory board of a company or a profit-making organisation.
3. If the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine considers a submission on appointment of a Member of Parliament to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, such submission shall include the Member of Parliament’s personal request to terminate his/her parliamentary powers in case of appointment to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. The Prime Minister of Ukraine shall be appointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the submission of the President of Ukraine made on the proposal of the coalition of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
2. The proposals of the coalition of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the Prime Minister’s candidacy shall be authenticated by signatures of members of parliament making no less than half of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and being part of the coalition of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
3. The President of Ukraine shall forward to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a submission on appointment of the Prime Minister of Ukraine not later than on the fifteenth day after receiving a proposal from the coalition of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
4. The submission on the appointment of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall be filed together with the information on education and profession; party affiliation, labour record and the most significant biographical facts; property, financial liabilities and incomes; membership in management bodies or supervisory boards of any company or profit-making organisation, as well as information on conviction, including the conviction which has not been cleared in accordance with the procedure set by law. Such information shall be signed by the candidate for the position of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
5. Should requirements of the Constitution of Ukraine and this Law be violated as concerns the submission of the Prime Minister’s candidacy or should the proposed candidate fail to meet the requirements established by legislation for a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine shall provide a reasoned answer to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the coalition of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the impossibility of such submission.
6. On the request of parliamentary factions, the candidate for the position of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall meet with parliamentary factions and answer their questions before his/her appointment is considered at the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
7. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall consider the appointment of the Prime Minister of Ukraine not later than within fifteen days after the President of Ukraine makes a relevant submission.
8. The candidate for the position of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall be introduced by the President of Ukraine at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
9. Upon introduction, the candidate for the position of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall make a report on the main priorities of the future Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and answer the questions of members of Parliament.
10. The resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on appointment of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall be adopted by roll-call voting. The decision shall be passed by the majority of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
11. Should the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decline the candidate for the position of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine shall submit another candidacy for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in accordance with the procedure set by Part 2 of this Article.
1. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, excluding the Minister of Defence of Ukraine and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, shall be appointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine. The Minister of Defence of Ukraine and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine shall be appointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the submission of the President of Ukraine.
2. The Prime Minister of Ukraine shall make a submission on appointment of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as a single list not later than on the fifteenth day after the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appoints the Prime Minister of Ukraine. Only one candidacy shall be proposed for each office of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. The submission on appointment of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be filed together with the information on education and profession; party affiliation, labour record and the most significant biographical facts; property, financial liabilities and incomes; membership in management bodies or supervisory boards of any company or profit-making organisation, as well as information on conviction, including the conviction which has not been cleared in accordance with the procedure set by law. Such information shall be signed by the candidate to the office of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall consider the submissions filed by the President of Ukraine and the Prime Minister of Ukraine and appoint members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by open roll-call voting.
4. Decision on appointment of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be made by the majority of constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Simultaneously with the appointment of a Member of Parliament to the position of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the issue on preterm termination of parliamentary powers of such Member of Parliament shall be solved.
5. Should the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decline a candidate for the position of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, a new submission on a candidate shall be made within a seven-day period.
2. The Oath shall be read by the Prime Minister of Ukraine, and its text shall be signed by each member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. A signed copy of the Oath shall be kept in the personal file of the member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
4. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall acquire its powers since the moment when the Oath has been sworn by no less than two thirds of its composition.
1. Not later than within thirty days upon the acquisition of its powers, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall submit for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine its Action Programme covering the term of its powers and defining the operation strategy and tasks of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. The Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall take into account the Address of the President of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the domestic and foreign status of Ukraine as concerns foreign, defence, and security policies.
3. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall consider the adoption of the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at its plenary session within fifteen days after its submission to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
4. Before its consideration at the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be discussed within the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and parliamentary factions.
5. The Prime Minister of Ukraine shall personally present the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and answer to the questions of members of Parliament.
6. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine may provide the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with a possibility to work out its Action Programme on the basis of proposals and observations expressed in the course of its discussion within the committees, parliamentary factions, and at the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
7. The Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be adopted by a law of Ukraine.
2) on the resignation request of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, including in the cases when he/she is incapable to exercise his/her powers due to the physical condition.
3. New members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be appointed in accordance with the procedure set by Article 9 hereof, and they shall acquire their powers upon swearing the Oath mentioned in Article 10 hereof before the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall resign with the election of a Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
2. The request on the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be submitted by the Prime Minister of Ukraine or the person acting as the Prime Minister of Ukraine and it shall be announced at the first meeting of the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
5) if the Prime Minister of Ukraine dies.
1. On the proposal of the President of Ukraine or no less than one third of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine may consider the issue on responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and vote no- confidence in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. The issue on responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be considered at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine not earlier than in ten days after the submission of the proposal with invitation of the entire Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. The time for the consideration of the issue on the responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the proposal of the President of Ukraine shall be reconciled with the President of Ukraine.
4. The no-confidence resolution is considered to be passed if the majority of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine vote in favour of it.
5. Adoption of the no-confidence resolution results in the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
6. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine cannot consider the issue on responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine more than once during one ordinary session, as well as over one year upon adoption of the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or during the last session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
1. The Prime Minister of Ukraine shall be entitled to submit his/her resignation from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
2. Within ten days after the submission of the resignation, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall decide on the resignation of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
3. Resignation of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall take effect on the day when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decides on his/her resignation at its plenary session.
4. Decision on resignation of the Prime Minister of Ukraine due to inability to exercise his/her powers because of physical condition shall be made by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the basis of a medical opinion provided by a medical board formed by the Ministry of Public Health Care.
5. In case of the Prime Minister’s death, his/her powers are considered to be terminated on the day of death confirmed by a death certificate.
6. Termination of powers of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall result in the resignation of the entire Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. If more than one third of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine simultaneously submit their resignations, the Prime Minister of Ukraine may, within ten days, make submission on new candidacies for the positions of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine that have resigned or request his/her own resignation. If resignation is requested by the Minister of Defence of Ukraine or the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the submission with new candidacies for these positions shall be made by the President of Ukraine.
2. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall consider the resignation of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and appointment of new candidates to these positions within ten days after the day when the submission envisaged by part 1 of this Article is made.
3. If the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine fails to appoint new members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine consists of less than three thirds of its members, this shall result in the resignation of the entire Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, that has resigned to the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine or resigned preterm due to the reasons mentioned in Article 14 hereof, shall continue exercising its powers till the new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine begins its work.
2. In case of resignation or death of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine shall exercise the powers of the Prime Minister of Ukraine for the period until the new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is formed.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall direct its activities to ensure the interests of the Ukrainian people by means of enforcing the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, acts of the President of Ukraine, and fulfilling the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, approved by the law of Ukraine, implementing the policy of Ukraine’s integration into the European Union, solving the issues of public administration as concerns the enforcement of human and civil rights and freedoms, legal policy, economy and finance, social policy, labour and employment, public health care, education, science, culture, sport, tourism, environmental protection and security, use of natural resources, defence capacity, civil protection, and other tasks of domestic and foreign policy.
2. All issues of public policy shall be divided among members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. When forming and implementing public policies in the areas of national security, finance and loans, development of competition, privatisation of public property, TV and radio broadcasting, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall cooperate in accordance with the law with the National Bank of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the State Property Fund of Ukraine, and the State Committee on TV and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine.
4. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall continuously oversee how public executive authorities observe the Constitution and other legal acts of Ukraine, and take measures to clear up defects in the operation of such authorities.
10) represent the state in courts.
13) ensure fight against corruption.
6) regulate the securities and non-banking financial services market.
8) take measures to provide citizens who need social protection with free or affordable dwelling.
8) perform foreign economic activity in the area of energy.
7) ensure the informatisation of the society.
2) ensure development of standards of chargeable education and controls them.
6) perform state regulation of hunting and fishing.
11) ensure production of medical service standards and oversee them.
14) care for satisfaction of national, cultural, and language needs of Ukrainians living abroad.
4) protect Ukrainian citizens and legal entities abroad and assist with the representation of their interests.
6) ensure social security of former military servants.
3) develop and implement measures aiming at improvement of the system of public executive authorities to improve their efficiency and optimise expenses for the maintenance of their apparatuses.
3) promotion of improvement of the financial capacity of the regions and local self-governance bodies.
3. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall also exercise other powers defined by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may delegate, for a limited or unlimited term, some of its powers to other public executive authorities with a concurrent transfer of financial and material resources necessary for proper fulfilment of such powers within the limits set by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall oversee the performance of the delegated powers and be responsible for the results of such performance.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall direct and coordinate the operation of ministries and other central public executive authorities which ensure performance of public policy in the relevant areas of social and public life, as well as enforcement of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and acts of the President of Ukraine in such areas.
2. Ministries shall be responsible and accountable to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as controlled thereby.
3. Governmental bodies shall be responsible and accountable to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, relevant ministries, within the system of which they are functioning, and controlled thereby.
4. The ministries’ issues shall be represented in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by the relevant ministers. The issues of governmental bodies shall be represented in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by ministers responsible for the ministries, which the system of which such governmental bodies are functioning.
5. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall set up, reorganise, and abolish ministries and governmental bodies (services, inspections, and agencies) acting within the limits of costs envisaged for the maintenance of public executive bodies and approve the regulations on such bodies.
6. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall approve the cap limit for the number of civil servants and members of staff of ministries and other central public executive authorities with the funds envisaged for the maintenance of public executive authorities.
3) in accordance with the civil service legislation – state secretaries of ministries and their deputies.
8. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may fully or partially abolish acts of central public executive authorities (excluding ministries).
9. The particular features of relations between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the State Property Fund of Ukraine, the State Committee for TV and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine and other public executive authorities with special status shall be set by the Constitution and relevant laws of Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may decide to set up another public executive authority with a special status, concurrently submitting a bill on its status to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall direct and coordinate the operation of the ARC Council of Ministers as concerns the enforcement of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, acts of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the ARC territory. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to receive from the ARC Council of Ministers information on its operation.
2. The ARC Council of Ministers shall be accountable to and controlled by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as concerns the exercise of state functions and powers by the Council.
3. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall listed the report of the Head of the ARC Council of Ministers as concerns the exercise of state functions and powers by the Council.
4. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall set the procedure for the participation of the ARC Council of Ministers and its subordinated bodies in the implementation of the nationwide programmes, and other nationwide events.
5. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall ensure cooperation of the ARC Council of Ministers with ministries and other central public executive authorities of Ukraine, as well as arrange reconciliation of candidacies to the positions of members of the ARC Council of Ministers and heads of its subordinated bodies with heads of central public executive authorities.
6. Should the Head of the ARC Council of Ministers improperly fulfil his/her powers, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to file a request with the ARC Verkhovna Rada to dismiss such Head of the ARC Council of Ministers on the consent of the President of Ukraine.
7. Should the ARC Council of Ministers pass a decision that contradicts the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, as well as other legislative acts, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall file a submission with the President of Ukraine requesting to abolish such decision.
8. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to abolish acts issued by the bodies subordinated to the ARC Council of Ministers.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall direct and coordinate the operation of local state administrations as concerns enforcement of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, acts of the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, higher public executive authorities, as well as exercise of other powers vested into such state administrations on the relevant territory.
2. At its meetings, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall consider the issues related to the appointment or dismissal of heads of local state administrations and make relevant submissions to the President of Ukraine.
3. When exercising their powers, local state administrations and their heads shall be accountable to and controlled by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. When exercising their powers, heads of local state administrations shall be responsible to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
4. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall receive from local state administrations information on their operation and listen to regular reports by heads of local state administrations on the activities. Should any head of local state administration improperly fulfil his/her powers, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to bring him/her to disciplinary account or address itself to the President of Ukraine with a request to dismiss such head of local state administrations.
5. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall approve model rules of procedure of local state administrations, a model list of departments, divisions and other offices of local state administrations and typical regulations thereon, as well as set a cap amount of civil servants and members of staff of local state administrations, including their apparatuses, as well as expenses for the maintenance of such apparatuses.
6. Draft legislative acts related to the development of administrative and territorial units shall be sent to the relevant local state administrations. Before adopting such acts, the Cabinet of Ministers shall study the observations and proposals submitted by local state administrations.
7. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall consider proposals from oblast, Kyiv and Sevastopol City State Administrations as concerns the issues that need to be settled by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Heads of such administration shall be entitled to participate in the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers where their proposals are considered with the right of advisory vote.
1. Within the limits of funds envisaged by the National Budget of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may set up, reorganise, and liquidate in accordance with the law state business associations, state companies, institutions, and organisations, in particular to exercise individual functions on management of state property. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall approve regulations on (charter of) the above state business associations, companies, institutions, and organisation, set cap amount of their employees and the sum of allocations to be provided for the maintenance of state institutions and organisations, appoint and dismiss their executives and deputy executives, and apply disciplinary sanctions to them.
2. Within the limits, envisaged by legislation, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall coordinate and control the operation of the above state business associations, state companies, institutions, and organisations.
3. Executives of state business associations, state companies, institutions, and organisations set up by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be personally responsible to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for the results of work of their associations, companies, institutions, and organisations and efficient use of public property.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be responsible to the President of Ukraine.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall ensure the enforcement of the acts of the President of Ukraine, and support the head of state in the exercise of his/her powers as the guarantor of state sovereignty, territorial integrity of Ukraine, observance of human and civil rights, state independence, national security, defence and succession of the state, management of foreign policies of the state, as well as exercise of his/her other powers set by the Constitution of Ukraine.
3. Acts of the President of Ukraine issued within his powers envisaged by Paragraphs 5, 18, 21, and 23 of Part 1 of Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine shall be without delay countersigned by the Prime Minister of Ukraine and the minister responsible for the act and its implementation.
4. The President of Ukraine shall submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the issue on the responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine which shall be considered in accordance with Article 87 of the Constitution of Ukraine within thirty days after its submission.
5. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall respond to the addresses of the President of Ukraine and shall keep the President of Ukraine constantly informed on its operation and most important decisions and actions planned to be passed or taken in the area of ensuring state sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, performance of domestic and foreign policy of the state, enforcement of acts of the President of Ukraine, and, if necessary, conducts preliminary consultations with the President of Ukraine.
6. Ministries shall implement the instructions of the President of Ukraine issued within his/her constitutional powers.
7. The President of Ukraine or his/her authorised representative may participate in the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
8. Individuals authorised by the President of Ukraine shall be authorised to participate in the meetings of governmental committees with the right of advisory vote.
1. On its own initiative or for the enforcement of acts of the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall submit proposals and drafts relevant bills and acts of the President of Ukraine on the issues attributed to the powers of the President of Ukraine.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may address itself to the President of Ukraine with a request to define any bill as an urgent one.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be under the control of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine in the area of national security and defence, and it shall coordinate its activities in this area with the Council.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall implement the decision of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine enacted by decrees of the President of Ukraine.
3. The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine shall ex-officio include the Prime Minster of Ukraine, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
4. The procedure for the relations between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine is set by the Constitution, this and other laws of Ukraine, as well as by decrees of the President of Ukraine.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine cooperates with consultative, advisory, and other support bodies and services set up by the President of Ukraine.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall reply to the requests of consultative, advisory, and other support bodies and services set up by the President of Ukraine, as well as provide them with the necessary information.
3. The procedure for the cooperation between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and consultative, advisory, and other support bodies and services set up by President of Ukraine, shall be set by this and other laws of Ukraine, as well as by the decrees of the President of Ukraine within the powers envisaged by the Constitution of Ukraine.
4. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and heads of other public executive authorities may participate in consultative, advisory, and other support bodies and services set up by the President of Ukraine.
1. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine holds the right of legislative initiative at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
2. Only the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine bills on amendment of the Law on the National Budget of Ukraine, including on the basis of proposals made by other subjects of legislative initiative.
3. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall submit bills for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
4. To present a bill submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall define a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. As an exception, a bill may be presented in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a deputy minister.
5. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to call back its bill submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in accordance with the procedure set by the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
6. Any newly formed Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may call back bills submitted for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the powers of which have been terminated, before such bills are passed in the first reading.
1. To implement the decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine or on its own initiative, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall provide its conclusions on the completeness of economic grounding and financial support to the legislative proposals and bills, the implementation of which requires material and other expenses from the national and local budgets.
2. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall forward to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, for its expert analysis, all bills submitted for its consideration by other subjects of legislative initiative.
3. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to provide their opinions on the bills concerning the issues related to their competence. Such opinion shall be sent to the key committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for the development of such bill.
4. The Prime Minister of Ukraine, other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and deputy ministers shall be entitled to be present at the meetings of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and speak on the issues discussed in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
5. If at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine its members bring up the issues related to the operation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or other public executive authorities, the Prime Minister of Ukraine and other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to a remark in accordance with the procedure envisaged by the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
6. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or, on their commission, officials of ministries, other public executive authorities, and the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may participate in meetings of committees and temporary commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on their invitation when they consider issues related to the powers of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. In accordance with the Budget Code of Ukraine, not later than 15 September of each year, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a bill on the National Budget of Ukraine for the subsequent year.
2. The National Budget bill shall be developed with due consideration of the main budget policy priorities for the subsequent year (the budget resolution) approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Deviation from the main priorities shall be mentioned separately and grounded.
3. The National Budget bill may not contain provisions on suspension or abolishment of any laws of Ukraine or their parts.
4. The National Budget bill shall be presented at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
5. The procedure for the participation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the consideration by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the National Budget bill shall be set by law.
6. Not later than 1 May, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and publish a report on the implementation of the National Budget of Ukraine in the previous year which shall be considered within a two-week term upon its submission.
6. If necessary, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall submit for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a bill on amendment of the Law of Ukraine on the National Budget of Ukraine.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall develop and submit for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine draft nationwide programmes for economic, research and technology, social, national and cultural development of Ukraine, environmental protection and other issues.
2. Together with the report on the implementation of the National Budget of Ukraine for the previous year, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine reports on the implementation of the nationwide programmes.
1. On the request of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall provide statistical, financial, accounting, and other information and documents necessary for the fulfilment by the Chamber of its tasks, functions and powers set by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall receive from the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine information on results of inspections, audits, and revisions, as well as proposals on application of sanctions to the individuals guilty of violation of the legislative requirements, non-target and inefficient use of funds, material injure to the state. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall consider such information and proposals, take relevant measures within its competence, and inform the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine thereof.
1. Activities of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine related to the observance of constitutional human and civil rights and freedoms shall be under the parliamentary control of the Ombudsman of Ukraine.
2. Within the limits set by law, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall provide the Ombudsman of Ukraine with access to the acts and other documents of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and bodies, companies, institutions, and organisations subordinated thereto. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall support the Ombudsman of Ukraine in the exercise of his/her powers set by law.
3. In case there are grounds in the Ombudsman’s address, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall take measures within its competence to fix violations of human rights and inform the Ombudsman of Ukraine thereon.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine that receive an address or an interpellation from a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, are obliged to reply thereto in accordance with the procedure set by law.
2. A reply to the address or interpellation of a Member of Parliament of Ukraine sent to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be signed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine or, on his/her commission, by any other member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. A reply to the address or interpellation of a Member of Parliament of Ukraine sent to other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be signed by the member of the Ministers of Ukraine to whom such an address or interpellation is directed.
3. If replies to parliamentary interpellations are discussed at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, to whom such interpellations have been addressed, should be invited to the session.
4. The Prime Minister of Ukraine and other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall without delay receive Members of Parliament of Ukraine on the issues attributed to their parliamentary activities in accordance with the procedure set by law.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall arrange consideration of the addresses of committees and temporary commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the issues related to its operation.
2. Replies to the addresses of committees and temporary commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall be signed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine or any other member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the commission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine or the member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to whom such addresses are directed.
1. Every week when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine holds its meetings, an hour shall be provided for the questions to members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (“Question Hour”). The day, duration, and procedure of the Question Hour shall be set by the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
2. During the Question Hour in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the entire Cabinet of Ministers of Ministers of Ukraine shall be present.
3. During the Question Hour, members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall answer to the questions of the Members of Parliament and parliamentary factions. Members of Parliament and parliamentary factions may forward the questions that members of the Cabinet of Ministers will be asked beforehand in writing.
4. Questions during the Question Hour shall not go beyond the competence of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and central executive authorities.
5. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall answer the questions within the limits of their powers. If necessary, their answers may be complemented by other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
6. The Question Hour shall be broadcast live by nationwide TV and radio channels.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall address itself to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to receive opinions as concerns compliance with the Ukrainian Constitution of the valid international treaties of Ukraine or the international treaties to be filed with the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for their ratification, as well as to get official interpretation of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or a representative authorised thereby may participate in constitutional proceedings held by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. A representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be a mandatory participant of the constitutional proceedings concerning the contestation of the constitutionality of the acts issued by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. On the request of the Board or a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Prime Minister of Ukraine and other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall provide the necessary documents, materials, and other information on the issues prepared for consideration by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and its boards.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may be a plaintiff and a defendant at general jurisdiction courts.
2. At general jurisdiction courts, interests of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be represented by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, if another is not envisaged by laws or acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. On the request of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, and within the terms established thereby, public executive authorities, state companies, institutions, and organisations shall provide materials necessary for their judicial considerations.
1. In accordance with the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall cooperate with the National Bank of Ukraine and other public authorities on the issues within its competence.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall direct the public executive authorities to promote efficient functioning and development of local self-governance, compliance with the rights of local self-government defined by law, ensure cooperation of central and local authorities with local self-government bodies on the issues of local significance, in particular social, economic and cultural development of relevant administrative and territorial units.
2. Draft acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, that directly concern the functioning of the local self-governance or interests of territorial communities, shall be preliminary forwarded to relevant local self-government bodies.
3. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall compensate the local self-government bodies their expenses caused by decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or other executive authorities at the expense of funds envisaged by the National Budget of Ukraine.
4. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may submit for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the bills related to the provision of local self-governance bodies with powers of public executive authorities. Concurrently, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall provide proposals on full financial support to the exercise of such powers.
5. According to the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall ensure oversight of how local self-governance bodies exercise the public executive powers delegated to them.
1. Directly or through public executive authorities, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall ensure the exercise of rights of civil organisations envisaged by law.
2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall consider proposals of civil organisations as concerns the issues attributed to its competence.
16) perform general management of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. The Prime Minister of Ukraine may exercise other powers envisaged by the Constitution, this and other laws of Ukraine.
3. The Prime Minister of Ukraine shall be an ex-officio member of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.
4. In case of his, her temporary absence, the duties of the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall be performed by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine or any other Deputy Prime Ministers of Ukraine in accordance with the duty division defined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
10) negotiate and sign international treaties in accordance with the powers granted to them.
13) manage, on the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, consultative, advisory and other support bodies set by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as participate in the work of consultative, advisory, and other support bodies and services set by the President of Ukraine.
2. In addition to the powers defined hereby, ministers of Ukraine may have other powers envisaged by law.
1. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be politically responsible for the results of the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as a collective executive authority.
2. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall bear personal political responsibility for the state of affairs in the public administration areas vested into them, as well as criminal, administrative, and civil liability envisaged by the current legislation.
1. The work of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be organised in meetings.
2. The meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be called up by the Prime Minister of Ukraine and, as a rule, shall be held on Wednesdays starting with 10 o’clock in the morning at the Governmental Building.
3. Meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be deemed authorised if not less than two thirds of the members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine are present.
4. Should any minister be unable to participate in the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, he/she shall be replaced by a deputy minister with the right of advisory vote.
5. On proposals of its members, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall define individuals entitled to participate in its meetings with the right of advisory vote.
6. The President of Ukraine shall be invited to the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, should it consider the issues envisaged by acts of the President of Ukraine, attributed to the competence of the President of Ukraine, or related to the adjacent areas of activities of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the President of Ukraine.
7. The meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be presided by the Prime Minister of Ukraine and, in case of his/her absence, by the First Deputy Prime Minister.
8. Agendas shall be drafted by the Prime Minister of Ukraine with due consideration of proposals made by other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The agenda of the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
9. Meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be taken down shorthand and formalised in the minutes to be signed by the chairman of the meeting.
10. The procedure of meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, their shorthand recording and formalisations in the minutes, preparation and adoption of decisions, and other procedural issues related to the operation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be defined by the Rules of Procedure of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
11. The shorthand report of the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be a document of confidential nature.
12. The minutes and the shorthand report of the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be official documents. They shall be provided to members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for their acquaintance on their written request to the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Governmental committees are set up to coordinate the activities of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as for preliminary consideration of draft concepts, programmes and other public policy documents and draft regulations submitted for the consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. The list of governmental committees and their composition shall be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall appoint heads of governmental committees on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
3. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers who do not participate in any governmental committee may participate in the work of governmental committees with the right of decisive vote.
4. If any minister as a member of a governmental committee cannot participate in the meeting of his/her governmental committee, he/she shall be replaced by the deputy minister with the right of deciding vote.
5. Individuals authorised by the President of Ukraine shall be entitled to participate in the meetings of governmental committees with the right of advisory vote.
6. On the decision of the head of governmental committee or on his/her consent, heads of central and local public executive authorities, local self-governance bodies, and other officials whose participation is necessary for the discussion of any issue on the agenda, may participate in the meeting of the governmental committee with the right of advisory vote.
7. Meetings of governmental committees shall be authorised, if no less than two thirds of their members are present.
8. Decisions of governmental committees shall be passed by consensus and formalised in the minutes. If no consensus is achieved at the meeting of any governmental committee, the decision shall be passed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
9. Organisation procedure for the operation of governmental committees shall be set by the Rules of Procedure of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3) invite to their meetings representatives of public executive authorities, as well as other experts on the issues considered.
1. On the basis and within its powers, as well as by means envisaged by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall issue resolutions and instructions which shall be mandatory for implementation.
2. Normative acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be issued in the form of resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. Acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on organisation, administrative and other day-to-day affairs shall be issued in the form of instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
4. Acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be signed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
5. Validity of the acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may be suspended by an instruction of the President of Ukraine on the reason of their incompliance with the Constitution of Ukraine. Concurrently, the President of Ukraine shall address the Constitutional Court of Ukraine with a request to verify the constitutionality of such acts.
6. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine may recognise entire acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or their individual provisions unconstitutional. Such acts or their individual provisions shall become ineffective on theday when the Constitutional Court of Ukraine issues its ruling on their unconstitutionality.
7. Acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or their individual provisions may be contested at administrative courts in accordance with the procedure set by the procedural law.
8. Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and on the Official Herald of Ukraine.
1. The right of initiative in adoption of acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be held by members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, the public executive authorities with special status, the ARC Council of Ministers, oblast, Kyiv and Sevastopol City State Administrations.
2. Acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be drafted by ministries, other central executive authorities, the ARC Council of Ministers, oblast, Kyiv and Sevastopol City State Administrations.
3. Acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may be drafted with involvement of Members of Parliament, researchers, and other experts on their consent.
4. Draft acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted for its consideration shall be registered by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. All registered draft acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entered into the database of the electronic computer network and published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
5. Draft acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which have special social significance and influence the implementation of rights and exercise of duties by citizens of Ukraine, shall be submitted for public discussion in accordance with the procedure defined by the Rules of Procedure of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. All draft regulations submitted for the consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be forwarded to one of the governmental committees in accordance with the division of competence between them for the preliminary discussion, reconciliation and provision of their opinions.
2. If it is necessary to improve the draft, it shall be forwarded to its initiator on the decision of the governmental committee.
3. On the decision of the governmental committee, draft regulation may be forwarded to research institutions or individual experts for their expert analysis, or to public executive authorities, local self-governance bodies, non-governmental associations and other organisations for them to provide their opinions. It can also be published for discussion and collection of proposals.
4. On the decision of the governmental committee, draft regulation together with expert opinions and other documents shall be passed for the consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
5. Draft regulations and other documents subject to consideration by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may be preliminary discussed at the meetings of relevant consultative, advisory, and other support bodies.
1. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall pass its decisions at its meetings by the majority of votes from the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In case of a tie, the Prime Minister of Ukraine shall hold a casting vote.
2. To prevent emergencies and to clear up consequences of emergencies, on the decision of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the instruction of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may be passed by a survey of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in accordance with the procedure set by the Rules of Procedure of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. A draft of such instruction shall be sent to all members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be signed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine and sent to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine for their inclusion, in accordance with the established procedure, to the Single State Register of Regulations and published in the Official Herald of Ukraine and in the Governmental Herald within seven days upon their adoption by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall come into effect on the day of their publication if they do not envisage a later term of their enactment. In the cases, envisaged by law, resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or their individual provisions containing limited access information shall not be subject to publication and shall come into force on the moment when they are brought to the attention of the implementers, if such resolutions do not establish a later term for their enactment.
3. Instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall come into effect on their adoption, if they do not establish a later term of their enactment.
4. Instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be brought to the attention of their implementers by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and, if necessary, they can also be promulgated in accordance with another procedure.
1. To ensure the exercise of its powers, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may set up permanent and temporary consultative, advisory, and other support bodies.
2. The work of such bodies may involve civil servants, as well as Members of Parliament, researchers and other experts on their consent.
3. Tasks, composition, and organisation of work of consultative, advisory, and other support bodies shall be set by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
4. The work of experts involved in the work of consultative, advisory, and other support bodies of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may be remunerated at the expense of the funds envisaged for the support of the operation of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or a relevant central public executive authority.
1. The Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall provide organisation, information, legal, other expert and analysis, and logistic support to the operation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. The Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall ensure preparation and conduct of meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, governmental committees and activities of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as to ensure the continuity in the operation of the а Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall ensure control of the timeliness with which public executive authorities submit draft laws and draft acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as other documents for the consideration by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and governmental committees.
3. The Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be headed by the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed on the competitive basis and dismissed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine and consent of the High Civil Service Council in accordance with the procedure set by the civil service legislation.
4. The State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall have its deputies appointed on the competitive basis and dismissed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine and consent of the High Civil Service Council in accordance with the procedure set by the civil service legislation. The State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall make submissions to the Prime Minister of Ukraine on the appointment of Deputy State Secretaries of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
5. Civil servants of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be appointed and dismissed by the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in accordance with the civil service legislation.
6. Rights, duties, and responsibility of civil servants of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be set by the civil service legislation.
7. Termination of powers of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall not be used as a ground for the dismissal of civil servants of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
8. The structure of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
9. The Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be a legal entity and shall act on the basis of this Law and the Regulation on the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
10. The estimate of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be approved by the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the consent of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine within the budget allocation provided to support the operation of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Ministries of Ukraine (further referred as “ministries”) are the key bodies in the system of central public executive authorities that form and implement public policies in the relevant public administration areas aiming at the implantation of the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2. The ministries shall be directly responsible to and controlled by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as the President of Ukraine as concerns his/her constitutional powers.
3. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall attribute to the ministry systems governmental bodies, institutions, organisations, and companies, if another is not envisaged by law.
18) exercise other powers envisaged by laws of Ukraine and other functions, envisaged by acts of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Within the limits set by laws of Ukraine, ministries may, by their acts and by acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, transfer their individual powers to the subordinated governmental bodies, relevant structural offices of local state administration, and in the cases envisaged by laws of Ukraine also delegate such powers to institutions, organisations and companies.
2. Transfer and delegation of powers of ministries to other subjects shall envisage their obligatory provision with funds and material resources necessary for proper exercise of the transferred and delegated powers.
3. Ministers shall be responsible to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for the exercise of the transferred and delegated powers.
4. Agents that exercise the transferred and delegated powers shall be responsible to and controlled by the ministers as concerns the exercise of such powers and the use of the funds and property transferred for such purposes.
1. Ministries shall be set up, reorganised, and abolished by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine within the limit of funds envisaged for the maintenance of public executive authorities.
2. A submission on the setup or reorganization of a ministry shall contain proposals on the key functions and powers of the setup or reorganized ministry, as well as on the cap number and amount of allocation for its support. Ministries should be normally set up or reorganised with the new budget year.
3. A submission on the abolishment of the ministry shall contain a grounding of the necessity to abolish the relevant ministry and proposals on the redistribution of its functions and powers between other public executive authorities or on the expediency to reject the performance of such functions by the state.
4. The procedure for the implementation of organisation measure on the setup, reorganisation, and abolishment of ministries shall be set up by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Any ministry shall include a minister, deputy ministers, civil servants, and staff of the ministry apparatus.
2. Any ministerial system shall include governmental bodies, as well as institutions, organisations, and companies. In the cases envisaged by legislation, ministry territorial offices may be set up.
33) exercise other powers attributed to the ministries of their ministries by laws of Ukraine, as well as other functions in accordance with acts of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Deputy ministers shall exercise the ministers’ duties in case of their absence or inability to exercise their powers, replace ministers at the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (with the right of advisory vote) and governmental committees, represent their ministries, on the commission of the ministers, in relations with public authorities and non-state organisations, manage relevant consultative and advisory bodies under the ministry, participate in the formation of their ministers’ patronage services, and exercise other duties.
2. Positions of deputy ministers belong to the state political positions. Deputy ministers shall be subject to the requirements and compatibility restrictions set for members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. The number of deputy ministers shall be set by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for each ministry on the submission of the relevant minister, but cannot be more than three. Duties between deputy ministers shall be distributed by the minister.
1. Deputy ministers shall be appointed and dismissed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the minister reconciled with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. Deputy Ministers of Defence and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs shall be appointed and dismissed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the relevant ministers reconciled with the President of Ukraine.
3) discharge by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. If a new minister is appointed, deputy ministers shall immediately resign. A resignation request shall be filed with the minister who shall make a relevant submission for the consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine within a three-day period. Should any deputy minister fail to request without delay their resignation, the newly appointed minister shall make a submission on the discharge of such deputy minister for the consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on his/her own initiative. Deputy ministers whose resignation has been accepted, on the commission of the minister and on their own consent, may continue exercising their powers until new deputy ministers acquire their powers.
1. The ministry apparatuses shall ensure the exercise by the ministers of their functions and powers, oversee the enforcement of legislation and implementation of the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the area of the ministers’ responsibility.
2. The ministry apparatuses shall be headed by state secretaries of ministries and shall consist if departments and a secretariat.
1. Any State Secretary of Ministry shall be the top civil servant in the ministry. State Secretaries shall be responsible to and controlled by the minister.
2. The main task of the State Secretary is to ensure the activities of the minister as the head of the ministry and a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; to organise the day-to-day work related to the performance of the tasks vested into the ministry, including the control of the implementation of legislation and the Action Programme of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine within the system of the ministry; and to ensure stability and continuity in the work of the ministry apparatus.
24) issue orders on the issues within their competence and control their execution.
4. The state secretaries shall not be members of political parties. State secretaries of ministries shall not demonstrate their political views in public or be governed thereby when fulfilling their service duties.
5. In case of absence of the state secretary or inability to exercise his/her powers on other reasons, his/her duties shall be performed by the deputy state secretary of ministry.
1. State secretaries of ministries shall be appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and consent of the relevant minister for the term of five years with the right of re-appointment.
2. Candidacies for the positions of state secretaries of ministries shall be selected on the basis of an open competition to be conducted in accordance with the procedure set by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as envisaged by the civil service legislation.
3. Candidates for the positions of state secretaries of ministries shall be Ukrainian citizens with higher education and general term of experience of work of no less than seven years, including the managerial experience of no less than three years. They shall also meet other requirements envisaged by legislation.
4. State secretaries of ministries may be dismissed on the consent of the High Civil Service Council in case of improper fulfilment of their duties in accordance with the disciplinary liability procedure, due to the termination of their powers or inability to perform their duties due to physical condition, due to the conviction by the court, as well as on other grounds envisaged by the Civil Service Act of Ukraine.
5. Termination of powers of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and changes in its composition shall not be used as a ground for the dismissal of the state secretary of any ministry.
6. Deputy state secretaries of ministries shall be appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of state secretaries of ministries in accordance with the procedure envisaged by the civil service legislation.
1. Departments of ministries shall be the biggest structural offices of the ministry apparatuses set up for the fulfilment of the main tasks of ministries.
2. Directors of departments shall lead individual functional or sector priorities in the work of the ministries and shall have relevant sections subordinated to them. Directors of departments may have deputies.
3. Directors and deputy directors of departments shall be appointed by ministers on the submission of state secretaries of ministries from the number of candidates selected on the results of an open competition conducted in accordance with the procedure set by the civil service legislation.
4. Heads of other sections of the ministry apparatuses shall be appointed and dismissed by state secretaries of ministries in accordance with the procedure envisaged by the civil service legislation.
2. The ministerial secretariat shall be headed by a deputy state secretary of the ministry.
1. Ministry boards shall be permanent consultative and advisory bodies of ministries with their main tasks being information and analysis support to the definition of the priorities of the ministries’ operation, procession of draft decisions, and prediction of the results of the ministries’ operation.
2. Any ministry board shall include ex-officio the minister (chairman of the board), deputy ministers, the ministry state secretary, heads of governmental bodies within the ministry system, as well as representatives of the President of Ukraine, relevant committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and other public authorities, institutions, non-governmental organisations, researchers, and other individuals (on their consent). The personal composition of the ministry boards shall be approved by the minister.
3. The board shall meet on the decision of the minister as necessary, but not less frequently than once a month.
5) consider other issues on the proposal of the members of the board.
5. Decisions of the board shall be formalised in the minutes to be signed by the chairman of the meeting.
1. The minister may set up temporary consultative and advisory bodies of the ministry in the form of commissions and councils for provision of scientific recommendations and expert consultations, as well as other issues.
2. The ministry state secretary may set up task forces to draft normative legal acts and other documents and other expert analysis.
3. In addition to civil servants and members of staff of ministries, governmental bodies, institutions, organisations and companies which are part of ministries, the work of ministry consultative and advisory bodies and task forces may be conducted within involvement of representatives of other public authorities, local self-governance bodies, research and academic institutions, non-governmental associations on their consent or on the consent of their leadership, including on the contractual basis.
1. In the cases envisaged by legislation, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine may set up territorial bodies of ministries. Territorial bodies of ministries shall coordinate, oversee, and control the operation of the ministry systems in the relevant region, as well as fulfilment of functions envisaged by the regulation on the relevant ministry.
2. Ministries without territorial bodies shall implement their powers in terms of coordination, oversight, and control of operation of the ministry system in the regions through relevant offices of local state administrations.
1. Acts of ministries shall be issued as orders of minister.
2. In the cases envisaged by laws, acts of ministries shall be mandatory for execution by governmental bodies, local public executive authorities, local self-governance bodies, companies, institutions, and organisations, independently of their form of ownership, and citizens.
3. Normative legal acts of ministries shall be prepared, adopted and enacted in accordance with the procedure set by law.
4. Normative legal acts of ministries shall be registered by the Ministry of Justice in accordance with the procedure set by law.
5. Normative legal acts of ministries shall be entered into the database of the electronic computer network and published on the ministry’s website.
6. Acts of ministries or their individual provisions may be contested by individuals and legal entities, as well as local self-governance bodies at administrative courts in accordance with the procedure set by law.
1. Governmental bodies shall be set up within the systems of ministries to fulfil individual functions related to manage certain sections and areas of activities (services), provide registration, permission and other administrative service to individuals and legal entities, as well as manage public property (agencies), or perform control and oversight functions (inspections).
2. Governmental bodies shall be set up, reorganised, and liquidated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the relevant minister, while governmental bodies outside any ministry system – on the submission of the relevant Deputy Prime Minister.
3. Tasks, functions, subordination, accountancy, funding, territorial offices of governmental bodies and other issues related to its operation shall be defined in the regulation on the relevant body approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the relevant minister.
4. Model regulation on the governmental body shall be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Heads of governmental bodies shall be appointed and dismissed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the submission of the Prime Minister of Ukraine on basis of the proposals on the candidacy to the position of the head of governmental body made by the relevant minister. Candidates to the positions of governmental bodies shall be selected on the competition basis in accordance with the procedure envisaged by the civil service legislation.
8) exercise other powers in accordance herewith and other legislative acts.
3. Heads of governmental bodies shall have their deputies to appointed and dismissed by the relevant ministers on the submission of heads of governmental bodies from the candidacies selected on a competition basis in accordance with the procedure envisaged by the civil service legislation.
5) control tariffs for paid services provided by agencies.
Governmental bodies outside any ministry system shall be directed and coordinated by relevant Deputy Prime Ministers of Ukraine within the limits envisaged by this Article.
2. Heads of governmental bodies shall report to ministers on operation of their governmental bodies and use of funds in accordance with the procedure set by regulation of such body.
3. Ministers may commission relevant officials of their ministry apparatus to take oversight measures as concerns the operation of governmental bodies.
4. To exercise their powers, ministers and officials commissioned to take oversight measures as concerns the operation of governmental bodies shall be entitled to request and receive from governmental bodies any information on their operation.
5. Ministerial officials shall not be entitled to issues instructions or interfere in the operation of governmental bodies acting on the basis of the law and regulation on such governmental bodies.
1. Governmental bodies may set up their territorial offices in the Crimean Autonomous Republic, oblasts, districts, cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol and their borough, and in other cities and towns. If necessary, joint territorial offices of governmental bodies may be set up for a number of oblasts, districts, districts and cities/towns, and city boroughs. Territorial office networks shall be established and changed by heads of governmental offices on the consent of ministers and in accordance with the regulations on such bodies.
2. Heads of territorial offices of governmental offices shall be appointed and dismissed by heads of governmental bodies in accordance with the civil service legislation.
3. Regulations on territorial offices of governmental bodies shall be approved by heads of governmental bodies.
1. Within the limits of their powers, the heads of governmental bodies and their territorial offices may issue orders related to the internal organisation of operation of the relevant body.
2. Upon consideration of cases of individuals and legal entities, officials of governmental bodies and their territorial offices shall pass administrative acts.
3. Administrative acts of officials of governmental bodies may be contested with the head of the relevant territorial office or governmental body.
4. To consider complaints of individuals and legal entities, agencies and inspections shall set up special appeal sections, including with involvement of representative of the public. The procedure for the formation and organisation of operation of such sections shall be set by the regulation on the relevant government body.
5. Administrative acts of heads of governmental bodies may be contested with the relevant minister.
6. Acts of governmental bodies or their individual provisions may be contested by individuals and legal entities at administrative courts in accordance with the procedure set by law.
1. Expenses for the maintenance of governmental bodies shall be provided from the national budget.
2. Proceeds of agencies received from the services that they provide shall be used for the organisation of provision of such services by adding such funds to the National Budget of Ukraine in accordance with the procedure and in the amount established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to form their patronage services within the limits set for number of staff and salaries by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Any minister’s patronage service shall consist of not more than 10 members of staff.
2. Patronage service shall provide consultations to their member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, prepare necessary materials, arrange meetings and contacts with the public and mass media, support relations with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as exercise other functions defined by the member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
3. Patronage services of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Deputy Prime Ministers of Ukraine and ministers without ministries shall be set up within the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Patronage services of ministers with ministries shall be set up within the apparatuses of the relevant ministries.
4. Every member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to form the personal composition of their patronage services on their own. Members of staff of patronage services shall be hired and discharged by the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or ministerial state secretaries on the submission of the relevant member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
5. Members of staff of patronage services of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall not be entitled to issue instructions of civil servants and employees of public executive authorities.
6. On their consent, civil servants may be transferred to the patronage services of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
7. Members of staff of patronage services of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be discharged due to the termination of powers of the relevant member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, on the submission of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or on other grounds envisaged by the labour legislation. When discharged due to the termination of powers of their member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, members of staff of the patronage service shall receive a severance pay of their average monthly salary and they shall keep their average monthly salary for the period until they get employed, but not longer then for three months. Civil servants transferred to the patronage service shall be restored in their previous position or in an equal position upon discharge.
1. Conditions of remuneration of members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be set in accordance with the legislation.
2. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to an annual leave of thirty calendar days with payment of material assistance for improvement of health in the amount of their average monthly salary.
1. Should any member of the Cabinet of Ministers with record of service sufficient for receiving a pension (25 years for men and 20 years for women) resign due to physical condition, he/she shall be granted monetary support until he/she reaches the pension age.
2. Payment of monetary support to a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be stopped as soon as such individual starts receiving a pension, gets employed or convicted for having committed a crime.
1. A member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be provided with a service car.
2. A member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine who needs better housing conditions shall be entitled to the monetary compensation for the rent of his/her dwelling for his/her period of office.
3. A member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be entitled to buy tickets to all kinds of intercity transport within Ukraine out of turn.
4. Life and health of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be subject to mandatory state insurance. The insurance conditions shall be set by legislation.
5. The Prime Minister of Ukraine, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and their family members shall be provided with personal security. Other members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall be provided with security only in the cases and in accordance with the procedure set by law.
6. For the period of his/her powers, a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall receive a diplomatic passport in accordance with the established procedure.
7. In case of death of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, assistance shall be provided for his/her burial.
1. Salaries of deputy ministers shall make up 85% of the ministers’ salaries.
2. Conditions set for members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as concerns material and everyday, social, pension, and other support shall extend to deputy ministers.
1. Officials and servants of public executive authorities shall be liable in accordance wit the legislation.
2. Damage caused by illegal decisions, actions or omission of action by officials and servants of central public executive authorities when they were exercising their powers shall be compensated by the state.
3. The state shall be entitled to a regress claim to an official and a servant of a public executive authority that has caused damage within the limits and in accordance with the procedure set by legislation.
1. This Law shall come into force on the day of its publication, with the exception of Chapters 2 and 3 of Section V “Ministries”, which shall come into force in three months upon the day of its publication, and provisions on the High Civil Service Council, which shall come into force on the moment of its setup in accordance with the civil service legislation.
2. The Law of the Ukrainian SSR “On the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR” (Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady URSR, 1979, No. 1, Art. 7; 1980, No. 7, Art. 115; 1981, No. 24, Art. 364, No. 49, Art. 841; 1984, No. 4, Art. 83; 1985, No. 49, Art. 1167; 1986, No. 29, Art. 584, No. 39, Art. 797; 1987, No. 35, Art. 675, No. 47, Art. 947; 1988, No. 18, Art. 450) shall be invalidated.
The words “deputy ministers, deputy heads of state committees that are part of the Government, first deputy heads and deputy heads of committees and other central public executive authorities under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine” shall be excluded.
4. Part 6 of Article 5 of the Law of Ukraine “On Mobilisation Training and Mobilisation” (Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrayiny, 1993, No. 44, Art.416; 2005, No. 16, Art.255) shall be supplemented with the following sentence: “A mobilisation office shall be set up at ministries within the structure of the ministry secretariats and shall be subordinated to the state secretary of ministry”.
2) within four months upon the publication hereof, appoint the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, his/her deputies, and state secretaries of ministries.
6. Before the State Secretary and Deputy State Secretaries of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine are appointed in accordance herewith, but not later than for four months upon the publication hereof, their powers shall be exercised by the Minister and Deputy Ministers of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
1) To conduct a competition for the occupation of the vacant offices of the State Secretary and Deputy State Secretaries of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, a specially authorised central public executive authority shall organise a commission consisting of nine members, and for the competition for the vacant offices of state secretaries of ministries – a commission of eleven members.
2) The competition commission for the occupation of offices of the State Secretary and Deputy State Secretaries of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, state secretaries of ministries shall include the chairman of the commission – the head of the specially authorised central public executive authority for civil service, a representative of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, a relevant minister or his/her representative (only as concerns the office of a state secretary of ministry), the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or his/her representative (only as concerns the office of a state secretary of ministry), the head of the National Public Administration Academy, as well as two representatives of the President of Ukraine, the coalition of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and all parliamentary factions outside the governmental coalition.
3) Meetings of the competition commission shall be authorised if not less than two thirds of its members are present. The commission shall make its decision by the majority of votes from the total number of commission members. The meeting of the competition commission shall be formalised in the minutes to be signed by members of the commission present in the meeting. Each member of the commission shall be entitled to add their individual opinion to the minutes.
4) A candidate for the office of the State Secretary or Deputy State Secretary of the Cabinet of Minister of Ukraine, or a state secretary of ministry may be denied access to the participation in the competition due to his/her failure to meet the requirements set for the relevant vacant office, as well as due to the restrictions set by the Law of Ukraine on Civil Service.
5) A candidate for the office of the State Secretary or Deputy State Secretary of the Cabinet of Minister of Ukraine, or a state secretary of ministry who has been denied access to the competition may contest this decision in accordance with the current legislation.
3) develop a concept for the introduction of independent regulators in the system of public authorities and submit a relevant bill drafted on its basis for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
9. Before the system of central public executive authorities is reorganised in accordance herewith, but not longer than over one year after this Law comes into force, the central public executive authorities shall be directed and coordinated by the relevant minister in accordance with the previously passed decisions.

References: Art. 7
 Art. 115
 Art. 364
 Art. 841
 Art. 83
 Art. 1167
 Art. 584
 Art. 797
 Art. 675
 Art. 947
 Art. 450
 Art.416
 Art.255