Analysis of legal acts on combating corruption in Ukraine

The article presents an analytical review of the new legislation adopted in Ukraine, which reflects the main directions of the reform in the field of legislation in the organs of public service and local government, as well as addresses the issues of financial accountability of political parties to ensure reviewing anti-corruption programs in the structure of state bodies, carrying out monitoring in the field of public procurement, amendments to the judicial system and the criminal justice agencies, ensuring free competition and the establishment of responsibility for bribery for persons working in private companies. According to the results of the analytical review it can be concluded that the country has adopted a number of innovations: created the National Agency, which is addressing issues in the field of prevention of corruption as a central executive body with special status; formed a list of specific restrictions on the use of official position in the preparation of gifts; limited capacity of public servants, the leading career concurrently; introduced regulated fundamental rules of ethical conduct for civil servants; strengthened financial control (paying special attention to providing the declaration of income); the legislator specified persons having authority to assist in the fight against corruption; conducted special checks of candidates applying to practice high-level government posts. Based on the analysis of new laws adopted in Ukraine, the author marked obstacles to the effective fight against corruption in the country, the main ones are corruption in public procurement, the judiciary and criminal justice authorities in the activities of executive bodies in the private sector, as well as the virtual absence of responsibility for bribery of persons working in private companies, special forfeiture rules for all corruption-related crimes, guaranteeing the protection of corruption whistleblowers and the unified state register of legal persons involved in corruption.