Today we participated in an expert discussion organized by the government-civil initiative Together Against Corruption
We talked about what the existing shortcomings are and how to improve regulation and minimize corruption risks in the procedure for examining construction projects.
Representatives of civil society in the field of construction, expert organizations, and experts in the construction industry took part in the online discussion. The meeting primarily focused on corruption and violations in the field of construction project expertise. The organizers presented an interesting study of the causes of corruption and ways to overcome them.
In particular, the reasons for violations in the expert market are the lack of industry control of expert activities (by self-regulatory organizations), the secrecy of expert reports and appendices to them, the lack of specification in the legislation of the concepts of “positive” and “negative” expert reports, the lack of distinction between the experience of experts and the category of complexity of objects, when experts without proper experience can undertake expertise of any level of complexity, and many other factors.
Experts see one way to solve corruption problems in this area in translating the expert report exclusively into a digital format. We have been talking about this for a long time, and we have even developed a tool that allows expert organizations to translate their reports into electronic form. This was once again reminded by the Executive Director of the Alliance, Oleksandr Petushkov.
Other tools may include establishing clear specialization and requirements for admission to the examination of experts of the appropriate qualification level, establishing a clear procedure and criteria for depriving experts of qualification certificates, etc.
A series of expert discussions related to various areas of cooperation with the Ministry of Regional Development will continue throughout the week and will touch upon many topical issues in the construction industry.
We remind you that on January 19 at 12:00 and 16:00, discussions will be held on the following topics:
1) Optimal procedures for certification and decertification of responsible executors.
2) Identification and consideration of abuses and shortcomings in the work of experts who conduct an examination of construction projects.
Link: — presentation discussed during the meeting; — draft amendments to regulatory legal acts (CMU Resolution No. 560, Ministry of Regional Development Order No. 204) https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1JfIGrSGDyMd7FlhNbKS5tfQSgkzLb9v6
