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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that electronic declaration of income of public servants must be introduced in 2016.

“The amendment to the law on the State Budget that postpones this issue for 2017 should be abolished. We will introduce them in 2016. It is the visa-free regime package and we cannot postpone it anymore,” he said at the meeting of the Council of Regional Development on Thursday.

The president added that the draft laws on those amendments had already been revised with consideration of the experience of the EU countries.

Early January it was reported that the parliament delayed the introduction of the new electronic declaration system until January 1, 2017 during the revision of the bill on the 2016 national budget.

On January 5, the Verkhovna Rada registered bill No. 3755, which cancels the provision in the 2016 state budget that delayed the introduction of the new electronic declaration system. The bill was drafted by MP Vadym Denysenko of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.

On January 26, the parliament failed to include the bill to the agenda to revoke the delay in electronic declaration of income of public servants, which is the key liability of Ukraine to the EU in part of visa liberalization.