Project
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Verkhovna Rada Committee on legal policy
Verkhovna Rada Committee on state building and local self government
Centre for Political and Legal reforms
supported by
Danish Institute for Human Rights
Ukrainian Parliament Development Program
Eurasia Foundation
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN UKRAINE:
NECESSITY AND PROSPECTS
KYIV
DECEMBER 7, 2005
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Conference goal – discussion of current situation of public administration in
Ukraine and determining of prospects for administrative reform.
Arrangement tasks (blocks of issues to be discussed) to present the draft Concept of the Public Administration Reform in
Ukraine;
to discuss achievements in administrative system reform in 2005;
to evaluate the impact of constitutional changes dated December the
8th, 2004 over public administration functioning in Ukraine;
to determine first steps (for 2006) and future perspectives of
administrative reform.
Place of the Conference – Kyiv, Hrushevskoho St. 30/1, Central Building
of Officers of the Armed Force of Ukraine
Working languages: Ukrainian, English
The Project on the Concept of the
Public Administration Reform in Ukraine
Elaboration is supported by the Eurasia Foundation
with the finances provided by the US Agency for International Development
(USAID)
For additional information, please, contact
Centre for Political and Legal Reforms:
e-mail: : centre@pravo.org.ua
Phone: (044) 230-35-93, 459-01-93
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THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM
08.00-09.00 – Participants’ Registration
09.00–09.25 – Opening and greetings from the organizers
Ihor Koliushko, Head of the Centre for Political and Legal Reforms
Eric David Boyle, Regional Director of the Eurasia Foundation
Eduard Rahimkulov, Co-director of the Ukraine Parliament
Development Program
Dace Kavasa, Project Manager of the Danish Institute for Human
Rights
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09.25-10.45 – FIRST SESSION – CURRENT STATE OF THE PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION IN UKRAINE. POLITICAL AND
PROGRAM FUNDAMENTALS FOR THE
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM CONTINUING IN UKRAINE
(Time-limit of speech – 20 minutes)
The achievements of the new power in the public administration reform.
Main problems of administrative reform.
Roman Bezsmetnyy, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
(February – November, 2005)
The Concept of Public Administration Reform as the new step in
research and methodological providing of the reform.
Ihor Koliushko, Head of the Centre of Political and Legal Reforms
Constitutional fundamentals of the executive power reformation in
Ukraine from the view of changing of the Constitution of Ukraine
Volodymyr Shapoval, Professor, President Representative in the
Constitutional Court of Ukraine
The problems of legal regulation of the authorities and activities’
organization of the Government and the central bodies of executive
power
Mylola Onishchuk, First Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada
Committee on the law policy issues
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10.45-11.00 – Coffee break
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11.10-13.00 – SECOND SESSION – LEGAL REGULATION OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. DOCTRINAL AND EXPERT
EVALUATION OF THE DRAFT CONCEPT OF THE PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION REFORM
(Time-limit of speech – 20 minutes)
Reform of the Ukrainian Administrative Law – necessarily precondition
of the administrative reform
Vadym Averyanov, Professor, Department Head of the State and
Law Institute named after V.M. Koreckyy of NAS of Ukraine
Legal regulation of the local self government reform
Yuriy Kluchkovskyy, Deputy Head of The Verkhovna Rada
Committee on state building and local self government issues
Evaluation and comments on the draft Concept of the public
administration reform in Ukraine. Basic notes for administrative reform
Jerzy Regulski, Professor, President of the Local Democracy
Support Foundation (Poland)
Recent scientific elaborations concerning improvement of the state
administration and local self government organization and activity in
Ukraine
Yuriy Bytiak, Professor, Director of the Institute of the Building and
Local Self Government of the ALS of Ukraine
The correspondence between the public administration model foreseen
by the draft Concept of the public administration reform in Ukraine and
the European standards
Claus Haagen Jensen, Professor, Head of the Board of the Danish
Institute for Human Rights
Concept of the Public Administration Reform in Ukraine:
between European identity and national traditions
Petro Steciuk, Assistant Professor in the Lviv National University
named after Ivan Franko
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13.00-14.00 – Dinner
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14.00-15.45 – THIRD SESSION – MAIN DIRECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN UKRAINE
(Time-limit of speech – 10 minutes)
The problem issues of legal regulation of the administrative reform in
Ukraine
Borys Bespalyy, Secretary of The Verkhovna Rada Committee on
state building and local self government issues
Decentralization as one of the main directions of the state policy
Mykola Puchtyns’kyy, Head of the Local Self Government Support
Foundation
Reform of administrative and territorial structure and local self
government - discussion questions
Anatoliy Tkachuk, Head of the Civil Society Institute
Perspectives of the regional self government introducing in Ukraine
Mykola Yakovyna, Councilor of the Communities Partnership
Program
State control system development as the integral way of the public
administration reform
Olga Andrijko, Professor, The State and Law Institute named after
V.M. Koreckyy of NAS of Ukraine
The problem of determination of domain jurisdiction of administrative
courts
Oleksander Pasenujk, Head of Superior Administrative Court of
Ukraine
Budget system reforming as the integral part of the public administration
reform
Iryna Zaveruha, Assistant Professor in the Lviv National University
named after Ivan Franko
Reforming of the relationships between public administration bodies and
citizens
Viktor Tymoshchuk, Deputy Head of the Centre for Political and
Legal Reforms
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15.45-16.00 – Coffee break
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16.00-17.30 – FOURTH SESSION – The first arrangements in the
administrative reform realization in Ukraine for the year 2006
Discussion (Time-limit of speech – 10 minutes)
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17.30-18.00 – Making conclusions and recommendation of the Conference.
Conference Closing
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18.00-19.00 - Banquet