The separate provisions of bill No. 5655 was called “part of the Anti-Corruption Strategy” by the National Anti-Corruption Agency.
Representatives of the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada considered all the comments of the National Anti-Corruption Agency in preparation for the second reading of the draft law on urban planning reform. This was said by the head of the NAPC, Alexander Novikov, in an interview with Censor.net.
According to him, the end of the anti-corruption expertise in bill No. 5655 On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Reforming the Sphere of Urban Development was submitted by the agency to the Rada more than a year ago.
“The text for the second reading was sent to us by the committee only two weeks ago. We checked it, found that most of our comments were taken into account, and the standards that could create corruption were adjusted to our recommendations . But new areas appeared in this law, we identified them and sent comments with proposals to the committee. These comments were also removed from the revised version of the bill,” said the head of the agency.
Novikov draws attention to several articles of the bill that carry “tremendous corruption risks.”
“For example: the unauthorized construction in the project before the second reading – and it is clear that it is a big risk of corruption – is not considered a violation of the urban planning documentation,” he said.
In general, Novikov called some standards of bill No. 5655 which is “part of the Anti-Corruption Strategy.”
“Urban planning and distribution of land resources, according to the results of our surveys, is one of the most corrupt areas of public relations. And they are one of the main priorities of the anti-corruption strategy for 2023-2025. In fact, some positive standards of this bill – 5655 – are part of the Anti-Corruption Strategy,” he stressed.
In turn, the Censor.net publication states that, according to the list of NACP comments, a clear procedure is proposed for the termination of the right to build and cancel permits in the event that the supervisory authority establishes violations of developer side.
“In particular, we are talking about revoking the right to build on the basis of documents that are contrary to the urban planning law. , NAPC proposed to consider it unauthorized. Non-compliance of data and information with documentation requirements in urban planning to obtain conditions and restrictions in urban planning should be the basis for refusing to grant these conditions and restrictions. These comments were taken into account by the committee when preparing the document for in the second reading,” the newspaper wrote.
In addition, comments are considered on the elimination of the principle of tacit consent to restore the right to carry out preparation or construction work of the customer / general contractor in the event that it is intentional, for the purpose of obtaining illegal profits, failure to fulfill their duties by an authorized person of the urban planning control body in terms of stopping violations of the urban planning law.
Some changes made based on the NACP proposals are related to local governments and their powers in matters of urban planning regulation. In particular, the previous version of the draft law did not provide the obligation of an architect to develop a project that takes into account the requirements of urban planning documentation at the local level – only at the national level. Also, no responsibility is given for the violation of such requirements, as well as the verification of their compliance by specialized organizations. On the recommendation of the NACP, the relevant provisions will be included in the bill for the second reading.
Today, December 13, 2022, the consideration of bill No. 5655 on the change of the urban planning system in the second reading.
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