Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law to reinforce the responsibility of officials, state agencies and local government, the president’s press service reported on Friday.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, supported a presidential proposal and approved a new version of the law to reinforce the responsibility of officials, state agencies and local government on September 8, 2011.
In particular, the law adds to the Labor Code new grounds for the termination of an agreement with official in the case of repeated violations of the law concerning licensing, state regulatory policy and the issuing of licensing documents.
The law also introduces amendments to the Administrative Offense Code that reinforces responsibility for violations of the law that regulates the issuing of licensing documents, licenses, and also for violations of the law regarding regulatory policy and the state registration of legal acts.
The MPs took into consideration president’s suggestions and added to the Administrative Offense Code an article under which officials that fail to submit or submit late the legal acts for state registration that have to be registered according to law, or whose legal acts fail to undergo registration, will be punished with fines of from 30-50 tax-free minimum incomes of citizens.
Moreover, the article on violations of the law in the sphere of state regulatory policy is excluded from the Administrative Offense Code.
