By KYIV. Sept 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine has completed the second phase of the assessment of the adaptation of legislation to the law of the European Union (self-screening), the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration has reported.
“The second phase of the initial assessment of the state of implementation of the acts of the law of the European Union (self-screening) has been completed. Within two months, the government authorities worked out about 28,000 acts of the EU law and, based on the results, prepared 34 reports to fill in the future National Program for the Regulatory Approximation of Ukraine’s Legislation to the EU acquis,” the press service of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration said.
The Cabinet of Ministers was provided with 31 reports prepared by specialists from the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Energy, the State Statistics Service and the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.
Also, three more reports from the National Bank and the National Securities and Stock Market Commission will be submitted as soon as possible after the final revision.
It is expected that after the processing of the reports, with the participation of the Government Office for Coordination on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, the following steps are planned: the creation of an up-to-date list of acquis; a generalized list of already adopted Ukrainian legislation that meets the acquis; analysis of disagreements between the state of implementation of the acquis under the Association Agreement and the current EU law; development of the National Program for the Adaptation of Legislation to the EU acquis and the acquis implementation plan (instead of the Action Plan for the implementation of the Association Agreement); development of draft normative legal acts to be adopted in the framework of the negotiation process; adoption of relevant bills; implementation of the adopted legislation; monitoring bills for compliance with European obligations; elaboration of approaches to the formation of negotiating positions; providing support to the European Commission in preparations for official screening in 2024.
As reported, the first phase of self-screening ended on June 30. In particular, more than 80 government authorities and public institutions were involved in self-screening in 34 negotiation sections.
