The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine supported the initiative of the
Ministry of Justice on launching the electronic Apostilles system in Ukraine.
Such statement has been made during the Government meeting by the Minister of
Justice of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko.
“We are introducing a new progressive service – electronic Apostille.
It’s an appropriate certification of documents of non-commercial nature
received by Ukrainian citizens from justice bodies in order for them to
subsequently submit them to competent bodies abroad. This concerns sales
contracts, certified by a notary; court decisions; birth certificates and other
documents”, - stated the Minister.
Previously 120 thousand citizens, who had annually addressed the
Ministry of Justice for this service, had to address justice bodies 4 times –
submit documents to the main administration of justice in their region, after
the documents have been submitted, the administration filed them to the
Ministry of Justice in Kyiv. And only at the Ministry of Justice Ukrainian
citizens from all regions could receive this document. Such system created a
fruitful ground for bureaucracy, queues and corruption.
“Ukraine will join the electronic service the main point of which is
that citizens are able to submit documents for their authentication by an
electronic Apostille at any office of civil registration according to citizens’
place of residence. These documents are processed by an electronic system,
documents get authenticated by an electronic Apostille and these documents may
be both printed directly from the website or obtained at the same registry
office within 24 hours. No need to travel to Kyiv, no need to stand in lines”,
- emphasized the Minister.
Authorized representatives of countries to which the documents are being
submitted to can verify authenticity of the Apostille and the document with the
help of a register.
There are 23 countries in this system including USA, Great Britain,
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Latvia, Georgia, Moldova and others.
“We are in the top 20 countries that use electronic Apostille in
cross-border transactions. 2 weeks after publishing the resolution the
innovation will be operating in test mode. And then it will start its work on a
regular basis”, - summarized Pavlo Petrenkoю
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