The creation of an Interdepartmental Coordination Commission (National Coordinator) to combat crime under the Cabinet of Ministers will eliminate the fragmentation of powers among authorities in this area and help bring the national system for combating organized crime closer to European standards.
This opinion was expressed to Interfax-Ukraine by Khristina Bilak, an employee of the Barristers law firm, commenting on the draft amendments to the law on the organizational and legal basis for combating organized crime registered in the Verkhovna Rada.
She noted that the relevant commission will become a permanent consultative and advisory body under the Cabinet of Ministers and will ensure the coordination of actions by state bodies involved in the fight against organized crime, strategic planning, threat assessment, monitoring, and control of the implementation of state policy in the field of combating organized crime, and will bring the national system of combating organized crime closer to European standards of management and coordination.
In particular, according to the draft law, the National Coordinator will develop comprehensive action plans based on defined priorities and summarize information on their implementation, completion, or reasons for non-implementation.
At the same time, the lawyer noted that, according to the government decree of September 27, 2022, until the creation of the national coordinator, his functions are entrusted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The draft law was developed to fulfill Ukraine’s commitments in the field of European integration. The creation of a permanent national coordinator for combating organized crime is also one of the recommendations of the European Commission set out in the report on Ukraine’s progress within the framework of the 2023 European Union Enlargement Package.
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