Under the guise of fighting corruption, the authorities lobbied for the adoption of bill No. 5655 “On Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Reforming the Sphere of Urban Development”, but the new law not only does not remove corruption risks, but also creates new “feeding troughs” for small developers, and attempts. Georgy Mogilny writes about this in an article for ZN. UA " Why in the battle for urban reform they became enemies of the village and the city?

According to the author, now, in the order of decentralization, only 99 territorial communities have assumed delegated powers to exercise architectural and construction control.. As already noted, the legislation establishes the mechanisms of state architectural and construction supervision, which provides for the implementation of DIAM scheduled and unscheduled inspections and additional cameral and documentary inspections, in fact, a kind of continuous monitoring using the data of the USESB.

In turn, the authors of the bill refer to the insane corruption in the CHI as the reason for the need to adopt bill No. 5655. As a result of the adoption of the document, the powers of control as self-governing should be exercised by all 1470 communities. Urban planning supervision will be carried out exclusively in the order of unscheduled inspections.

“How can corruption become less if state supervision is weakened, and the number of supervisory bodies in the CHI increases by almost 15 times and the total number of officials in them increases by thousands? Everything suggests that the state simply stops trying to fight corruption in the CHI. Some developers don't like this corruption? Private authorized persons have been created especially for him,” Mogilny writes..

The author explains that if corruption in the CHI is eliminated, there will be no point in private control - no one will pay money for a service that, without corruption, can be obtained from an official free of charge. At the same time, there are significant risks of the emergence of new corruption schemes..

“There are no safeguards against communal control intimidating developers, driving them into clients of private control. In small towns, hiring private control will be more expensive than in big cities, because the cost of services will include payment for the controller's road - developers themselves will be happy to pay unofficial communal controllers if the bribes are less than the official payment for private control, ”the author writes..

The winner, according to Mogilny, is again the village heads, who receive a new possible corruption feeder from local small developers. And in large cities where large-scale illegal construction flourishes, the main result will be a decrease in both the likely corruption profits of local officials and their ability to influence developers in high-profile cases..

Well, someone with sufficient connections will be able to build a new profitable business for himself on the implementation of private control, the author is convinced..

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On December 14, the Rada with a minimum number of votes - 228 out of the required 226 - adopted in general a draft law authored by the head of the Servant of the People party Elena Shulyak. As ZN warned. UA, the vote passed without discussion. The mono-majority managed to push through the scandalous bill thanks to the deputies elected from the now banned pro-Russian Opposition Platform - During Life, in particular, Nestor Shufrich and Alexander Kachny. It should be noted that the petition on the website of the President’s office on vetoing the bill gained 25,000 signatures in just one day, which are necessary for Zelensky to consider it..

In turn, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption stated that the Verkhovna Rada Committee did not fully adhere to the recommendations provided..

In particular, the NAPC emphasized that the law actually introduces “the principle of tacit consent regarding the restoration of the right to perform preparatory or construction work by the customer / general contractor in the event of, for example, intentional, for the purpose of obtaining illegal profits, failure to fulfill their duties by an authorized person of the town planning control body”. At the same time, the main drawback of the draft law in the NACP is the lack of openness in its development in violation of the principle of transparency and consideration of public opinion..