While the Ministry of Finance reports the successful disbursement of the first tranche of EU budget support to Ukraine for 2025, the Verkhovna Rada is advancing draft law No. 12474-d — a controversial legislative initiative aimed at “reforming” ARMA — even though:
it contradicts the Constitution and the Budget Code;
the draft law has raised serious concerns among the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, as well as other public authorities and international partners.
ARMA is already working on a new, coordinated draft law that considers all submitted comments, including those provided by the G7 ambassadors. Otherwise, the parliamentary draft law could have seriously undermined the NACP’s ability to verify officials’ asset declarations.
