Restrictions for public servants on double job holding and positions overlapping with other types of activities: content and proposals for improving legal frameworks
Journal Title: Вісник Запорізького національного університету. Юридичні науки - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue
Abstract
Special restrictions for public servants occupy pride of place among the diversity of means preventing a conflict of private and public interests in the public service They are called “special” due to their focus on special persons – persons empowered to exercise functions of the state or local self-government, and involve a special sphere of their coverage – public and official activities. One of the types of such restrictions is a restriction on double job holding and positions overlapping with other kinds of activities the fundamentals of which are consolidated in Art. 25 of the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption”. Introduction of a relevant “filter” of anti-corruption activities of public servants in the domestic legislation is consistent with international legal standards of anti-corruption nature (United Nations Convention against Corruption, Recommendations No R (2000) 10 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to Member states on codes of conduct for public officials dated May 11, 2000, patterns of foreign anti-corruption rulemaking), however, it differs by specific features of immediate consolidation. The latter was manifested in a quite simplistic, generalized approach of the legislator to drafting a relevant regulatory framework. Thus, it stipulated the grounds for different interpretations and application of the provisions of Art. 25 of the Law in practice, avoidance of legal liability for violation of a particular law by offenders. Based on a thorough study of the content of Art. 25 of the Law, comparative and legal analysis of the experience of foreign countries in relation to the statutory definition of such restrictions, the authors propose a number of recommendations for improving legal frameworks of use of the resource of this kind of special restriction for public servants (it is the goal of the article). In particular, it is proposed to consolidate the definition of “other gainful activity” at the regulatory level with the preservation of its features that allows separating it from an entrepreneurial activity. The author substantiates the expediency of making amendments in the context of the accumulation of provisions, which determine the range of persons who are subjected to the relevant restriction; introduction of a restriction on “institutional political activity” of a person for the period of his performance of state or local self-government functions; substitution of the word “restriction” by “prohibition” in article title for conformity of the title with the content of the article; specification of regulatory frameworks on exceptions in the general prohibition in relation to certain types of activities (teaching, scientific, creative, etc.). Introduction of relevant amendments to Art. 25 of the Law will promote certainty, stability, and justification of legal frameworks of using this restriction as an effective “filter” of anti-corruption activities of public servants in Ukraine.
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Т. О. Коломоєць, С. М. Кушнір
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