The Ukrainian parliament has adopted as a basis a bill on the foundations of state regional policy. Some 227 MPs supported the document at first reading.
“The bill proposes to determine the legal, economic, social, environmental, human and organizational framework of state regional policy as an integral part of the internal policy of Ukraine,” read the accompanying documents.
The bill is aimed at creating a legal framework for the implementation of a new state regional policy.
The draft law defines the principles of state regional policy: constitutionality and legality, partnership, parity, openness, and subsidiarity.
The objects of state regional policy are regions, districts, cities, towns and villages, as well as the group of the said administrative-territorial units.
The subjects of regional policy are the president, the parliament, the government, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Crimean Council of Ministers, the central and local bodies of executive authorities, the authorities of local self-governance.
The state regional policy is determined by a system of interconnected documents: the state strategy for the regional development of Ukraine, Crimea, regions, Kyiv and Sevastopol, the plans of actions to implement these strategies, the national programs of economic and social development.
