On March 17, 2017 the twelfth meeting of the Panel "Public Administration Reform" under the multilateral thematic platform No 1 "Democracy, Good Governance and Stability" of the EU initiative "Eastern Partnership" was completed.
The agenda of the second day meeting was devoted to discussion of the legislative support to civil service reform as a basic component of public sector reform in Ukraine and legislative regulation of service in local self-government authorities.
Chairperson of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government Serhii Vlasenko opened the working meeting and presented the priorities of the Committee in the context of the public administration and local self- government authorities reform.
Head of the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service Kostiantyn Vashchenko underlined that effective cooperation between the Government and the Parliament was the guarantee of successful development of the country.
Deputy Head of Division for Eastern Partnership, Regional Cooperation & OSCE of the European External Action Service Directorate for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional Cooperation and OSCE Nils Jansons in his speech admitted the active involvement of the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service within the framework of the PAR Panel activities and wished all the Eastern Partnership countries involved states inspired work and future development of public administration.
A new version of the Law of Ukraine "On Service in Local Self-Government Authorities" and main outcomes of the implementation of the Law of Ukraine "On Civil Service" were presented during the event.
Representatives of the European External Action Service, SIGMA program, state institutions and embassies of the Member States and Eastern Partnership countries in Ukraine, representatives of government authorities, civil society of Eastern Partnership countries, Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service, Center for Adaptation of the Civil Service to the Standards of the European Union took part in the working meeting.
For reference: since 2011 the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service on behalf of Ukraine has been actively involved in the activities of the Working Group (Panel) "Public Administration Reform", in particular it participates in Working Group meeting and in events organized by the Eastern Partnership countries on the regular basis. Cooperation within the framework of the Working Group is to contribute to fulfilment of the main tasks of the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service, including ensuring the development and implementation of common state policy in civil service sphere, including the implementation of functional civil service management, development of measures on improvement of civil services etc.
The Working Group (Panel) on Public Administration Reform is focused on the following areas:
"Civil service, public administration organizations and their function (human resources management, general principles of the entry into the civil service and it performance, normative-legal acts)";
"Transparency, e-governance and data protection";
"Local / regional state authorities decentralization";
"Effective management of technical assistance" (since 2012 Ukraine is a leading country in this area).
