The European Union has decided to issue 15.5 million euros in budget assistance to Ukraine for the reform of the public administration sector, the press service of the EU Delegation to Ukraine has reported.
Based on the results achieved by Ukraine in reforming the public administration sector in 2017, the EU decided to increase assistance to Ukraine in this important area of public policy. Some 15.5 million euro of the total amount of 90 million euro that constitute the EU’s commitments to supporting this reform are to be transferred to the national budget of Ukraine for 2018, the agency said.
The EU noted this is the second payment after the first tranche of 10 million euro, which was provided in May 2017.
In addition, the diplomatic mission noted that in 2016 the EU approved a special program of assistance to reform the public administration sector in the amount of 104 million euro, which provides 90 million euro for budgetary support and 14 million euro for technical assistance, which is used to provide advisory services to state bodies involved in implementation of the reform.
The decision to send 15.5 million euro from the EU funds to the national budget of Ukraine for 2018 is our recognition of the tangible progress that Ukraine made in the implementation of the public administration reform, Thomas Frellesen, Chargé d’Affaires of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, stated.
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleksandr Sayenko, in turn, clarified that in accordance with the agreement on financing the program “Support to Comprehensive Reform of Public Administration in Ukraine,” the first part of the tranche is fixed and amounts to 5 million euro, while the second part depends on the success of the reform implementation, as measured by certain program indicators.
“Thanks to their implementation, the second part of the tranche is 10.5 million euro. The funds for budget support are transferred to the national budget,” he said.
According to the minister, Ukraine has fulfilled 75 percent of the indicators set for 2017.
“Due to the implementation of these and other indicators Ukraine received another tranche,” Sayenko added.
