PORA ANTICRISIS PLAN OF ACTIONS

Term of realization – 4 months (till the end of 2005)

Start of realization – September 1, 2005 

1.         To avoid the constitutional crisis

To announce a clear and joint position of authorities towards the problems of constitutional reform and to proclaim Ukraine’s state structure after reform’s realization till the Day of Ukraine’s Independence

2.         To establish order in the state administration

Until the end of September 2005 to balance according to the legal acts, administrative functions of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and to adapt according the constitution of Ukraine functions of others departments of state authority (especially Secretariat Office of the President of Ukraine).

To reform the structure of the government of Ukraine, to incorporate the unified system of evaluation of the work by state authority organs, to revise the appointment of ministers and staff policy of state organs.

Until the end of September 2005  - to create effective integrated system of  monitoring and control of the execution of orders, regulations and  instructions by the President of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine, and  by central organs of state authority. To create a special state institution that will carry out such monitoring of all central organs of state authority and actively involve civil society to such an activity.

3.         To create honest and effective power

Until the end of 2005 - to reform according to EU standards the system of adopting management decisions, to clearly define the functions and competence of state organs and their internal structures, to implement the system of electronic governance, and to guarantee on judicial level the adoption of government laws already at the stage of their development. To adopt a new law of Ukraine ‘On State Service’.

To accomplish an immediate reform of staff appointments in the public service on the basis of  independent professional testing, and to conduct until the end of current year the reappointment of state officials of higher and middle rank on its basis. To develop and implement a unified procedure of appointment of state officials with the help of qualified testing on the basis of a separate state specialized institution.

4.         To guarantee the property rights, to return stolen to people

Before the middle of September  - to officially and publicly announce about exclusively court mechanisms of returning unlawfully privatized property to the state property and to officially  decline reprivatization and any other uncivilized mechanisms of property return to state ownership which are not inherent to market economy and democratic country.

Until the end of this year – to bring to the court all cases connected with the return of all unlawfully privatized and stolen state property to the state, and to provide this process to be of high quality and active support by all adequate organs of state power.

5.      To establish rule of law in Ukraine

To complete the elaboration of 2-year plan of the radical court reform by the end of October 2005 and to start its realization at the beginning of 2006. To ensure the complete independence and self-governance of the juridical power branch. To establish the strict mechanisms of public control on the activities of judges and to determine the severe liability for corruption in the court system.

To work out till the end of September 2005 and to adopt the yearly intersectional Anticorruption Plan of Actions that will encompass unification of the activities of public service, providing its complete transparency and accountability, working out clear procedures of adopting state resolutions, implementing the electronic government system in all the state and local authorities, preventing the consumers of state services from direct contacts with state officials, etc. To implement the efficient system of control on implementation of such plan of actions. To legalize the mechanisms of involving citizens and NGOs to the process of public administration based on the principles of partnership and common participation.  

6.     To carry out the clearing of power, to punish the criminals

 To accomplish the 2^nd wave of clearing the state authorities from corrupt persons, including the representatives of new power. To immediately dismiss the representatives or owners of business structures. To conduct the personal analysis of activities of the high-rank state officials, including ministers and heads of the oblast state administrations. To finish the process of firing the corrupt and inefficient bureaucrats representing the ousted regime on the central and local level.

To complete by the end of the year investigation and to detain all the criminals that while occupying the high state positions committed crimes against Ukrainian people, called for split and federalization of the country and  to anti-constitutional actions, and today sabotage in the organs of state power. To conduct the mandatory personal investigations of the activities of the most odious representatives of the old regime – Kuchma, Medvedchuk, Kivalov and others included in PORA “black lists”.   

7.      To provide conditions for economic reforms and development

 To launch a program of involvement and support of investments, improvement of the image of Ukraine for investors abroad before October 2004.  To guarantee the favorable conditions for foreign investments and their protection with a separate legislative act.  To ensure the immediate accession of Ukraine to the World Trade Organization and to abandon the projects on creation of a common custom union and supra-state organs within the framework of the SES (Single Economic Space).

To study the possibilities of introducing amnesty of capital gained in a legitimate, not criminal way, by the end of the year. Such an amnesty can’t be spread over the property that is subject of the court claims filed by the state till the end 2005.  

To immediately weaken the state influence on the management of economics, to work out the policy of reducing taxes and system program of support of small and middle business.

Upon accomplishment of this Anticrisis Plan of Actions PORA proposes to start the implementation of the most actual reforms in the strategic development directions of Ukraine, namely:

- court and justice reform;

- tax reform;

- administrative reform;

- educational reform;

- realization of the European Integration strategy;

- reform of the legal regulation of the media sector and creation of the public television;

- reform of the local self-government;

- implementation of the system program of development of the image of Ukraine abroad.