Yanukovych signs law on public associations
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law on public associations, the presidential adviser and head of the main department for constitutional and legal modernization at the Presidential Administration, Maryna Stavniychuk, has said.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law on public associations, the presidential adviser and head of the main department for constitutional and legal modernization at the Presidential Administration, Maryna Stavniychuk, has said.
“The adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the law on public associations on March 22 and its signing today by the Ukrainian president is confirmation that Ukraine is implementing its duties as a member of the Council of Europe,” she said at a briefing in Kyiv on April 13.
According to the president’s adviser, the adoption of this law by parliament is directed at the the implementation of the president’s order on measures for the fulfillment of Ukraine’s duties to the Council of Europe.
The law will enter into effect on January 1, 2013.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law on public associations on March 22, with 334 MPs voted for it. During the revision of the law for second reading, all of the clauses approved at first reading were retained.
The law widens the term “public associations” – associations of individuals, public unions, and unions of private legal entities, by also allowing individuals to be its members. According to the law, the registration of public associations must be conducted within seven days.
The law also foresees public associations having the status of legal entities being permitted to carry out entrepreneurial activity directly if this helps to achieve the goals of the association.
The law allows the public associations to participate in the work of consultative, deliberative and another subsidiary bodies created by the state and local government bodies.
The law cancels restrictions on the work of the organization in terms of territorial features. Now such unions will not be divided into local, national and international ones.
According to the law, public associations can now avoid double registration. The Justice Ministry will carry out accreditation of the offices of foreign non-governmental organizations, registered according to the laws of other countries, affirm the status of national to public organizations, and introduce a single register of public associations.
Moreover, the state registration of public associations as legal entities will be carried out under a common basis after an examination of constituent documents by the territorial bodies of the Justice Ministry, the law reads.