On 31 May, the Parliament refused to consider propositions from MP Parubii (draft law on amendments to the Rules of Parliamentary Procedure), and haven't even put the bill on the agenda. VRU Chairman has repeatedly emphasized that reforming of the Rules of Parliamentary Procedure is based on recommendations of the European Parliament Mission, led by Pat Cox. Therefore, he was extremely ... →
According to analysis conducted by experts from OPORA, CHESNO and Institute for Social & Economic Studies (ISES) current edition of the bill №4696 on amendments to Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Ukraine, initiated by Andriy Parubiy, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, contains serious risks for Ukrainian parliamentarism. Therefore, CHESNO and OPORA suggest restarting bill ... →
How many local cells each parliamentary party has? Which region and which party has the largest number of regional cells? Civil Network OPORA is trying to get the answers. The analysis is based on information provided by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine answering OPORA's information request concerning local cells of political parties having parliamentary factions in the current Parliament ... →
Allocating social benefits, payments and financial assistance, appealing against court decisions, solving family and everyday disputes – all these issues, despite being so important to you, do not belong to duties of an MP of Ukraine, who represents citizen interests in the Parliament. Thus, each MP has duties and powers, which may help to improve significantly the quality of voter life, it they ... →
Do you have any questions to the certain MP or a parliamentary faction? Do you want to visit a public reception but don't know where to go and when? Don't spend your time on the search of non-existing addresses, use the all-Ukrainian map of public receptions of parties and Members of Parliament, developed by the Civil Network OPORA. All-Ukrainian contacts map of parties and Members of ... →
On 26 April, an updated Open Parliament Data Portal (opendata.rada.gov.ua) was presented in Kyiv. The resource contains over 110 structured parliament data sets covering legislation, draft laws, plenary sittings, MPs of Ukraine etc. These data may be used to create analytical products and online instruments, which provide accessible information about activities of the parliament. Development ... →
Civil Network OPORA has analyzed how actively parliamentary committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII convocation worked. From December 2014 to March 2016, subjects of legislative initiative have developed and registered 3,377 draft laws in the Parliament. MPs of Ukraine have developed 2,878 draft laws, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine – 421, and the President – 78. Thus, 78% of ... →
As modern informational technologies develop and public demand on them increases, state authorities, local self-government bodies and executive bodies all over the world have to use them in their work and communication with the public, what increases the quality of administrative decisions. Electronic governance, electronic parliament, electronic council, smart-city – these terms are not new, and ... →
Civil Network OPORA has initiated and is monitoring the realization of Work Plan for Implementation of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, which was presented in Parliament on 5 February 2016 The organization is realizing a number of projects, aimed to increase the transparency and openness of parliamentary processes and activities of MPs. On 18 March 2016, the first meeting of the ... →
On 11 March 2016, representatives of Civil Network OPORA met the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman to discuss the issues related to transparency and openness of the Parliament and its separate institutions, as well as development and introduction of the Open Data Portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Based on the meeting results, Volodymyr Hroisman charged the ... →
