Adopting a new wording of the law On Local State Administrations – a significant step for decentralization, being prepared for the second reading in the Parliament, is a significant step for decentralization. It was emphasized by the Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov, while addressing the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, held in Dnipro, headed by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi. The Head of the MinRegion addressed people’s deputies with a request to consider the bill in the near future.

«Currently we are working over the legislation improvement within the incumbent Constitution. Particularly, we are planning to actualize certain norms of the Law On the Local Self-Government in Ukraine and sectorial legislation in terms of local self-government and rayon and oblast council power division, the new administrative and territorial arrangement system taken into consideration. I would also like to ask people’s deputies to consider the new wording of the law On Local State Administrations within the current session of the Verkhovna Rada in a fast-track procedure as it is extremely important and enables to clearly differentiate powers of the local state administrations and local self-government bodies», claimed Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov.