On June 5, a landmark meeting of the Committee on the organization of state power, local self-government, regional development and urban planning was held. It was about bill No. 9241 concerning the renewal of the regional policy of the state in the context of the restoration of regions from the consequences of the Russian invasion. The bill was initiated by the head of the subcommittee on administrative-territorial structure, local self-government and regional policy Vitaly Bezgin (Servant of the People).

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The discussion that arose around the document confirmed the ZN. UA lack of communication between the committee and the ministry (the meeting was attended by Deputy Minister for the Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Oleksandra Azarkhin), as well as a discrepancy in basic positions related to the future restoration and development of post-war Ukraine.

Consequently, the problem that arose after the merger of the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Infrastructure into the Ministry of Restoration, from which the deputies of the committee did not wait for steps to continue the reform, came to the public plane. Bezgin, as the head of the relevant committee, was a participant in decentralization and is related to the government Law “On the Principles of State Regional Policy”, in fact put forward a direct complaint to the head of the committee, Elena Shulyak, who for some reason decided to deal exclusively with construction issues in the committee, putting it on the table together with the ministry.

Why is it so important now?

Bezgin explained this quite correctly: “Almost a year ago, the basic law on the principles of state regional policy came into force.. To our great regret, we must admit that the law remains on paper, because the sub-law is not ready, it is not being implemented (this is the responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers. - AND. The bill contains norms on the state regional strategy - regions and communities. Full-scale invasion changed the country. It is necessary to update the document at the state level and then move on to the regional and base level. What does this law suggest?. This could be done without the law, but for reasons unknown to me, it is not being done.. The government should re-approve the strategy and give a new starting point to the communities.”.

Of course, such words about the actual inaction of the government did not go unnoticed by the representative of the Ministry of Restoration. “Introducing changes to the state strategy for the country's regional development within a three-month period is unrealistic and inexpedient. The Ministry of Infrastructure also does not support an exception to the final and transitional provisions of paragraph 6, which obliges rural, township, city councils to provide development strategies for territorial communities within 18 months... This will lead to a stop in strategic planning and violate the three-level system of regional development, ”Deputy Minister Azarkhina read monotonously from. According to her, more than 700 communities already have development strategies, and another 601 are developing projects.. And this is done to comply with law No. 2389, adopted last year..

But, according to Bezgin, the law allows communities that have not experienced a serious impact as a result of Russian aggression not to change their strategy: “Moreover, the mentioned law No. 2389 provided for the formation of a commission until January 26 to classify territories as functional types. It's June now. The majority of the members of the commission must be people's deputies of our committee. The fact that the government does not comply with the requirements of the law within the time limits specified by law does not mean that it is not necessary to change the legislation because of this..

Pani Azarkhina stressed that Alexander Kubrakov had already sent a corresponding letter, and the government was ready to finalize everything before October: “Make an additional law to speed up our? I think this is an unconstructive position."

Elena Shulyak immediately supported the representative of the ministry, emphasizing that in the future she would like to submit projects agreed with the ministry to the committee meeting - this would be “correct and logical”.

“I believe that the position of the ministry is not constructive, which does not comply with the norms of the law. Communication is not letters in response to people's deputies, but information by the executive branch of the committee, which has, in particular, supervisory functions. Therefore, we will listen to the local government that supports this law, and do not forget that we are working in a decentralized country,” said Bezgin.

The people’s deputy added: if the government fulfills its obligations and works fruitfully with the committee during June, then the bill will not have to be adopted at all, but now the people’s deputies do not see the desire of the executive branch of power to comply with the law. Another people’s deputy from the Servant of the People, Oleg Dunda, joined the discussion: “Very often, officials forget that the committee is still not an appendage to the ministry”.

It was here that Mrs. Shulyak allowed herself a not very ethical statement about the deputy. But in the end, all members of the committee, except for Elena Shulyak, voted for the bill.. The head of the committee abstained.

Why? The fact is that the head of the committee and the ministry have developed a very specific legislative-government interaction. And it is connected with the scandalous urban "

Firstly, draft law No. 5655, which has many corruption risks and therefore will negatively affect the restoration of Ukraine, has not been signed by the president for six months.. But this does not prevent Deputy Prime Minister Kubrakov, as a representative of the executive branch of power, from taking measures to implement the initiative, which does not even have the status of a law.. Even more, the Kubrakov Ministry provides Shulyak with an exclusive service - for project No. 5655, which citizens demand to veto. For this, a separate website has even been created on the government domain.. Other people's deputies are not provided with such services for their legislative initiatives.. And how to get them is a mystery.

Secondly, draft law No. 5655 essentially created an alternative reality to the regional strategy already adopted by the government, which was approved by the aforementioned law on the principles of regional policy..

This is discussed in detail in the article “State Regional Policy-2023: To Be or Not to Be? ” wrote one of the authors of decentralization and the law on the state regional strategy, Anatoly Tkachuk, director for science and development of the Civil Society Institute, Yury Tretyak, an expert on regional development, and Ivan Lukerya, ex-Deputy Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories, wrote back in January.

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“So far, a coherent legislative basis for creating an understandable system of planning documents for the restoration of Ukraine has not been formed. At the same time, there are two types of competing planning documents at the regional and local levels, the authors emphasize.. — The unnatural inclusion in the Law “On Regulation of Urban Development” of documents outside the subject of legal regulation of this law introduced competition at the level of strategic planning of territorial communities. Thus, the Law “On the Principles of State Regional Policy” determines that territorial communities develop “strategies for the development of territorial communities”. At the same time, the Law "

In our opinion, this situation is unacceptable.. The system of planning documents for restoration should be unified, understandable, such that it does not allow fragmentation and ensures the restoration and development of territories. Everything must be done so that people do not get lost behind square meters, tons and kilometers. To do this, it is necessary to quickly revise and harmonize with each other two laws - " People determine the needs for recovery, the infrastructure that is being restored should be aimed at people.”.

In the end, the profile committee, supporting the initiative of the head of the subcommittee Bezgin, took the first step towards common sense.

But this situation has become another marker of the incompetent and, in fact, anti-state position of the head of the relevant parliamentary committee Olena Shulyak and, unfortunately, the Ministry for the Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine, which already at the start was embroiled in the scam of bill No. 5655. But it's never too late to say stop. Especially if we are talking not only about the reputation of specific politicians and officials, but also about the future of the state..

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