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The Business Ombudsman Council provides recommendations to state bodies on the basis of individual cases and in accordance with published systemic reports. Here we have collected information on the implementation status of systemic recommendations only.

Report name
Issued recommendations
Execution status

Systemic report "Combatting raidership: current state and recommendations"

To introduce the system of notification of owners of a legal entity or their representatives (by forwarding messages to e-mail and, as an additional administrative service, SMS-messages) of the receipt by the state registrars of the applications for registration actions in respect of such legal entity and/or its separate subdivision

Ministry of Justice

In process
— comments: Upon the results of the meeting of the Ministry of Justice, State Enterprise "NAIS" and the World Bank, starting from October, 2017, and as of today, the State Enterprise "NAIS" jointly with the representative of the technical cooperation project "Support to reforms in agriculture and land relations in Ukraine" of the World Bank take measures for introduction of this service (without involvement of commercial organizations in the process of rendering specified services) as regards notifying of pending changes with the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Formations (corporate rights). In particular, the concept and task specification of the relevant software are currently being approved.

To introduce amendments to the Procedure for state registration of legal entities, physical persons entrepreneurs and public formations without legal entity status, as approved by the Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine No.359/5, dated 9 February 2016, according to which: (1) the state registrars shall be obliged, when making changes in the USR in respect of ownership of corporate rights, to verify data of the SREMP to ascertain existence of registered encumbrances of such corporate rights; (2) in the presence of any encumbrances prohibiting the transfer of ownership of corporate rights - the respective registration actions shall be rejected on the basis of clause 5 of part one of Article 28 of Law No.755-IV.

Ministry of Justice

In process
— comments: Is being discussed in the Ministry of Justice.
To prepare and approve the protocol determining the structure and format of the information files to be transferred and accepted through information interaction of information systems of the State Registry of Real Rights Over Immovable Property and the State Land Cadastre according to Clause 10 of the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No.509, dated 12 July 2017. The respective technical protocol, inter alia, shall aim at creating technical opportunities for providing the state cadastral registrars with the information about the registered real rights over immovable property by granting direct access to the State Registry of Real Rights Over Immovable Property and entering data about owners and/or users of the land plot in the data recorded with the State Land Cadastre.

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Ministry of Justice
State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre

Implemented
— comments: Informational interaction became fully operational starting from mid-November, 2017.From the practical standpoint, it means, in particular, that now cadastral registrars are finally technically able to access information on ownership or lease of a particular land plot through direct access to the Register of Rights. In addition, when the state registrar makes certain changes to the Register of Rights, the data of the relevant land plot is being automatically synchronized with the Land Cadastre
To strengthen efforts aimed at properly informing both the professional circles and general public about the status and actual scope of authority vested with these commissions; here emphasis shall be placed on procedural breaches that constituted ground for cancellation of registration actions, – such information should be periodically disclosed at least in the aggregated form.

Ministry of Justice

Implemented
— comments: A separate section is available at the Ministry of Justice website, which describes the activity of the State Commission on Complaints Consideration in the Sphere of State Registration; the Ministry's management constantly informs the public via media, as well as placement in social networks. The same work is conducted by the leadership of the main territorial departments of justice in regions and Kyiv city.

To initiate certain amendments to the legislation aimed at preventing breaches of the existing territoriality rules while conducting registration actions.

Ministry of Justice

Implemented
To introduce public disclosure of the results of the off sight documentary audits.

Ministry of Justice

Implemented
— comments: Starting from August, 2017, the Ministry of Justice has been publishing the names of registrars and notaries, whose has been stripped of (temporarily or permanently) of access to state registers, indicating (if applicable) the term of such a restrictionSee, in particular:https://minjust.gov.ua/spysok-der-reest-ta-not

To initiate changes in the Unified Registry of Notaries, which would allow for disclosure of information about the notaries whose access to state registries was blocked/cancelled.

Ministry of Justice

Implemented
— comments: The Deputy Minister of Justice has, on several occasions, confirmed the Ministry's intention to eventually implement such a recommendation.
To elaborate the generalized clarifications for state registrars to minimize occurrence of typical mistakes committed by them while conducting registration actions.

Ministry of Justice

Implemented
— comments: As a result of joint work of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the Notary Chamber of Ukraine, a generalization "Typical mistakes that occur during state registration of the rights to real estate and its encumbrances, as well as state registration of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and public formations" was developed, which was presented on 06.12.2017 at the joint event of the Ministry and the Notary Chamber of Ukraine.
To prepare an explanation (or introduce amendments to the relevant legislation) to properly specify the conditions (perhaps, depending upon severity of violation), whose occurrence might trigger cancellation of certificate affirming one's right to conduct notarial activity.

Ministry of Justice

In process
— comments: The Ministry of Justice is reportedly cooperating with the Notary Chamber of Ukraine on this matter.
To provide clarification that the provision of the applicants with scan copies of the documents on whose basis the registration actions have been taken should take place in the same manner as the provision of other information from the state registries To speed up work aimed at ensuring technical interaction between the State Registry of Real Rights Over Immovable Property and the Unified State Registry of Court Decisions. To prepare methodological guidelines for the state registrars regarding automatic enforcement of court decisions whose operative parts are ambiguous and/or vogue.

Ministry of Justice

In process
— comments: Is being discussed in the Ministry of Justice.
To introduce amendments to the Procedure for Carrying Out Notarial Actions by the Notaries of Ukraine, approved by the Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine No.296/5, dated 22 February 2012, by supplementing it with a separate section about notarization of images of scanned documents, based on which the registration actions were made, on the PC screen (screenshots).

Ministry of Justice

In process
— comments: The process of developing amendments to the relevant regulatory acts in conjunction with introduction of the "electronic notary" is underway.
To prepare methodological guidelines for the state registrars regarding automatic enforcement of court decisions whose operative parts are ambiguous and/or vague.

Ministry of Justice

Not started
To encourage the development of the network of partnership relations with business circles and non-for-profit organizations for collective counteraction of raidership risks. For example, in May 2017 the Council, with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the OECD, presented the Ukrainian Network of Integrity and Compliance.

Ministry of Justice
National Agency on Corruption Prevention

In process
— comments: Although according to Art. 11 of the Law of Ukraine "On Preventing Corruption", the counteraction to the risks of raidership does not fall under the authority of the NACP, as far as 2018 is concerned, the NACP, in conjunction with the "Transparency and Integrity of the Public Sector" project of the United Nations Development Program has scheduled 5 roundtables to discuss the issues that were raised by representatives of business community during implementation of the anti-corruption programs.