On December
30, 2015, the meeting of the E-DATA working group «258» took place. The meeting
was chaired by the deputy Minister of Finance Oksana Markarova. The
work on the portal started in July 2015and is planned to be complete in June
2016 after the test mode of the portal will be over.
The portal
on public spending http://e-data.gov.ua/ is
without an exaggerating an information revolution for Ukraine. It radically
changes the budget process enabling citizens to be active, instead of passive,
participants in this process thanks to control tools deployed on the portal.
According to
project manager Oleksandr Shchelokov, the portal currently hosts
approximately 17000 registered virtual offices of fund managers and recipients,
the E-DATA website has 9000 visitors per day on the average; 750000 contracts,
reports and protocols have been published on the web-portal so far.
As far as
funding for the project is concerned, E-DATA is supported by international
organizations. Also,1.5 million hryvnas have to be provided from the
state budget, from which 0.5 million hryvnas will be returned to the
state budget as tax revenues. The contract on the creation and maintenance of
the web portal for public spending was signed in October 2015, the
works have been underway for three months already. According to the latest
information from the E-DATA project team, as per 15:00 p.m. on December 30,
2015, zero state budget money was spent on the web portal.
Deputy
Minister of Finance Oksana Markarova defined core issues which
must be solved in 2016: more active registration of entities entitled to manage
public funds, creation of an analytical center, amendments to the Law of
Ukraine «On the transparency of the use of public funds», implementation of the
concept «Transparent Budget» etc.
Oksana Markarova also
thanked all members of the working group «258» for their participation in the
project: «We are doing a right thing which will deliver positive results, if we
make this process irreversible. Itwillprobably deliver more trust to the
work of the Government, since our current situation does justly not encourage
citizens to trust us and make our work very difficult. I think that our project
will bring more light and transparency to our work».
E-DATA is
being implemented in three stages:
– state-owned and
municipal companies must register themselves and file reports on the portal in
January 2016.
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