Організаційно-правові напрями удосконалення нормотворчої діяльності Кабінету Міністрів України ; Organizational and legal directions for improving the rule-making activity of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

The article substantiates the need for a long-term comprehensive reform of the rule-making activity of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the relevant organizational and legal directions of such reform, considering the need to ensure the leading role of the Government in improving the rulemaking activity of the executive power, increasing the level of its system, proper planning, close coordination, and effective control. As such organizational and legal directions, the issue of improving the examination of draft government acts and the existing system of monitoring the implementation of government acts, improving the activities of government committees, giving greater weight and significance to public consultations with representatives of interested parties regarding draft acts of the Cabinet of Ministers, as well as the formation of the Public Council at Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Strengthening the influence of government committees would be facilitated by the legislative consolidation of the principles of organizing their activities as working collegial bodies of the Cabinet of Ministers, formed for the preliminary consideration and settlement of disputed positions regarding the projects of legislative acts submitted to the government for consideration. The system of normative acts regulating the monitoring of government decisions could consist of three levels: the upper level – the Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which would contain the initial organizational and legal aspects of such monitoring; medium level in the form of a separate general resolution, which would focus on the original principles and provisions for monitoring the implementation of regulatory and other governmental acts; and primary level in the form of special government decisions regarding the monitoring of individual government documents. The need for more complete provision of free access to information regarding draft government decisions being prepared for the Government’s consideration, their public ...