President signed Law on empowerment of local governments and optimize the provision of administrative services

President of Ukraine signed the Law №888-VIII "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine regarding the empowerment of local governments and optimization of administrative services," which was voted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 10 December.

According to this law, the executive authorities and local governments are given additional powers that significantly modifies and optimizes the process of administrative services. It is a place of residence registration, providing information from the State Land Cadastre, work with documents proving citizenship, establishment of a register of local communities, the exchange of information between the registers of local communities and the transfer of information in the Unified State Register of demographic. The law also regulates the procedure for access to information in these registers.

According to the law, on March 1, 2016 changed the terms of the State Land Cadastre, and on April 4, 2016 changed the rules and procedures of registration of residence.

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