The state should regain control over the sports sphere of Ukraine to the national federations by sport. About this in his article for ZN. UA the president of Federation of swimming of Ukraine Dmitry Kachurovsky writes.

According to him, in Ukraine it is necessary to ensure the autonomy of the sport, which was violated by the totalitarian Soviet system.

"The state is obliged to return powers of management to national federations on kinds of sports. It is about the organization, conduct and regulation of competition rules; Acquisition and management of national teams; Disciplinary responsibility; Record keeping; Training and certification of judges and trainers; Standards of the functioning of the sports infrastructure for the conduct of competitions and training work, "reads the article.

Kachurovsky notes that the central part of the new system should be sports clubs, federations. The corresponding status should be obtained by acting sports schools of all forms of ownership.

"All processes of cash flow must be transparent, predictable, built on open competitive conditions. (Here the resistance of the bureaucracy accustomed to the manual distribution of these funds is unavoidable), "the author stresses.

The President of the Federation, at the same time, believes that the state funding of sports should be maintained, both at the national level and at the local level.

It is also important to ensure the safety of sports schools, coaching capacity, methodological know-how, sports facilities and facilities, preventing their unjustified conversion.

"We need to organize reform as a project:

create technology, organize reform management and project office, accurately formulate the task, provide a resource and clear cooperation with the legislative and executive authorities. And then, with optimistic forecasts, in two years we will be able to see the result - a platform for the stable growth of the sphere of physical culture and sports in Ukraine, "the author concluded..

For more information on the reform of the sports sphere in Ukraine, see Dmitry Kachurovsky's article "Sport in Ukraine - Prospects, Opportunities, Meanings" in the weekly Mirror Week. Ukraine".