Which data should the local authorities necessarily publish under martial law? What should be done if local governments refuse to provide you with information?  

Access to information during war

Public information is information reflected and documented by any means and on any media, obtained or created in the course of the authorities’ performance of their duties. The right of every citizen to access such information is guaranteed by the legislation of Ukraine. 

However, with the introduction of martial law, a special legal regime began to function. In particular, there is a partial restriction of the constitutional right of people to freely collect, store, use, and disseminate information orally, in writing, or otherwise. 

However, these restrictions apply only in the interests of national security, territorial integrity, or public order. In no way do they abolish the key provisions of the Law of Ukraine On Access to Public Information. 

However, sometimes restrictions that do not actually comply with the Law are applied to information. For example, a clause on force majeure circumstances (such as the threat of war or armed conflict, etc.) allowed the authorities to postpone consideration of requests for information. It resulted in a negative practice of replying to the inquiries with “until the end of martial law.”

However, the postponement shall only apply for a period of time until these circumstances have been remedied. It should be the result of considering each specific inquiry, and not for all inquiries in general.

In addition, due to “the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine” and the “imposition of martial law,” the authorities began to establish general restrictions on access to information. But these restrictions should only be applied using the “three-part test” on a case-by-case basis. It consists of the following questions:

1. Does the classification of information serve the interests of national security, territorial integrity, public order and prevention of offenses, public health, protection of reputation or other rights of people, maintaining prestige and impartiality of justice, non-disclosure of confidential data?
2. Will the disclosure of information cause significant harm to these interests? 
3. Does the harm of disclosure outweigh the public interest?

Information managers must provide opinions on the presence of all these grounds. Otherwise, the restriction of access can be considered unreasonable. We also recommend focusing on the content and updates of information on official portals and social media pages of the local government. To enable residents to exercise their legal right to access public information.

The imposition of martial law in the country does not give grounds to restrict the right to obtain information. This is only possible in the interests of national security, territorial integrity, or public order.

Closed Open Data

Open data is also public information, but in a format suitable for automated processing. In other words, such information can be processed by software without human intervention. Datasets can be analyzed, compared with others, visualized, and shared in a convenient format. 

This is an important basis for the work of journalists, think tanks, and CSOs. For example, our Transparent Cities team uses open data to monitor the level of transparency of local authorities.

Open data are also useful for residents. In this way, they can find out about the availability of free medicines in hospitals, shelter addresses, current utility tariffs, etc.

This information was easiest to find on the Open Data Portal, where it was published by cities in particular. However, with the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the portal was closed, explaining it with security risks. In August 2022, access was partially restored in the rear regions, but much of the information on the portal is outdated.

In addition, in March 2022, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine provided an opportunity for local authorities to restrict the work of registers. Some city councils closed access to geoportals and open data portals at the request of law enforcement agencies.

As a result, as of December last year, 18 city councils of regional centers published only a quarter of the mandatory sets.

Struggle for the right to access: how to obtain the necessary data?

To begin with, check the existing sets on the Open Data Portal or on the website of the data manager (the body that owns the data and is obliged to publish it). If the necessary data are not available, you can send a request to the manager (online or by mail). To do this, use the Inquirer, which will form your request for access to public information.

The request must be sent to the designated email address, which is indicated on the manager’s website. If such an option is not provided, send it to the general e-mail in the Contacts section. 

The information manager should always be required to explain the reasons for refusal. After all, even under martial law, they are obliged to justify denying the access. If your request was ignored or refused, please contact the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. Complaints can be sent to the email address hotline@ombudsman.gov.ua or in a special online form. 

The Ombudsman can open proceedings on the request and file a protocol on the violation of your rights in court. Violators will face an administrative fine.

You can also contact the administrative court at the place of registration — yours or the manager’s. You will need to pay approximately UAH 900-1,000 of the court fee for one lawsuit. Bank details are available on the websites of the administrative courts which you plan to apply to. 

To simplify the process of writing an appeal to the court, we recommend using the online designer at the link. It can be used to write a lawsuit regarding access to public information.

Trust between society and the authorities is critical, especially in times of war. Equally important is the confidence of international donors that Ukrainian public authorities are open, transparent, and accountable in their activities. However, without access to information, this is extremely difficult to achieve.

Our Transparent Cities team is working on a new study on the state of city transparency in conditions of war. We are certain that effective local self-government is the basis for the stability of the state. Moreover, unhindered access to information is not only the constitutional right of every citizen, but also the key to an objective and comprehensive analysis of the work of the authorities.

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One of the steps taken by the government was also the decision of the Ministry of Digital Transformation to close the open data portal. It collected almost all open registers and datasets available in Ukraine. The portal was closed on the caution that the information from there could be used by the russians — at the end of February, there was no opportunity to separately check and weigh the risks for each of them.

However, time was running out. Some challenges were handled, some disappeared, and regarding other officials had enough time to prepare more thought-through and comprehensive solutions. Therefore, the duty-free import of cars was canceled, and the procurement was partially returned to free access for business on Prozorro.

On 1 August, the operation of Open Data Portal was also resumed. However, it stopped publishing 141 sets because these data are of potential risk. Among them is the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs (USR). The speed of economic recovery, trust in state bodies, and prompt provision of assistance to Ukraine directly depend on its openness.

Search for Business Development Options and Unoccupied Niches

The USR contains information about the state of enterprises, their place of registration, what they do. For the business or those who planned to open a business, this was one of the important channels to relatively quickly assess the number of competitors, find potential partners, customers, or suppliers. This helped to make business decisions more quickly and, accordingly, to implement plans, to develop their business and the economy of the country.

Trust in the Business

“Is the firm registered in the places of mass registration? Was it created only yesterday? Was the owner the founder of a dozen firms that only existed for a few months? Does the company regularly change owners, or did it move from construction to tailoring a month ago?” is only a small list of questions, the affirmative answer to which means an increased risk that the potential partner is unreliable.

Before the war, the verification of a potential counterparty in the USR became a routine matter, which reduces the risk of loss of funds, and accordingly, contributes to building new partnerships. Since the beginning of the war, this need has not disappeared and has even become more urgent.

Protection against Seizure of Business

One of the problems of business is raiding, during which the business is registered to outsiders. The sooner real owners find that they have been excluded from the list of owners, the sooner they will be able to react and the lesser the losses will be.

For this reason, in 2020, the USR began to be publicly updated every day, which allowed quickly tracking the main changes regarding the company. Now, the only way to receive these data directly from the state is to conclude an agreement with the state enterprise “National Information Systems” and pay almost UAH 5,000 every month.

The significant threat of losing your business at any moment, not only from shelling, but also from raiding, doesn’t really prompt to open your own business or expand the already existing one.

Effective Public Policy

Thanks to the open USR, authorities at any level could track how their actions impact the emergence of new businesses, re-profiling, relocation, as well as identify negative trends in business development.

These data are useful for international partners. After all, they allow them to understand the economy of the region or a separate sector and, consequently, to better develop a support program or approve a request for financing local initiatives.

Now, because of the changing structure of the market and the need to restore the economy, relevant and accessible information is one of the important factors for timely and effective solutions.

Trust in the State

The USR helped to remove the issue of persons receiving illegal benefits from their positions. Who owns a firm that was registered only a month ago and is already winning tenders for billions? Who received state assets or the right to extract materials for nothing?

In addition, openness is an additional shot against slander and information attacks by russians.

Despite the advantages, the opening of the USR may carry a potential risk to the country’s defense capacity. In particular, publishing the addresses of defense entities can make it easier for the enemy to find targets for attacks, and displaying information about heads of defense enterprises can potentially increase the danger to their lives.

However, these risks can be relatively easily eliminated — it is enough to remove the exact addresses of such enterprises and leave, for example, only the region, not to display information about the heads of defense enterprises.

Therefore, the USR needs to be returned at the moment — the benefits of this for the state and business outweigh the risks. And the latter can be dealt with.

In addition to the USR, the Ministry of Digital Transformation concealed 140 more registers; the risks are not obvious, and their closure could possibly have a significant negative impact. For example, the Public Cadastral Map of Ukraine is important for the normal implementation of land reform and tracking potential abuses. And the Unified State Register of persons who committed corruption or corruption-related offenses allows for better tracking whether recognized corrupt officials continue to receive funds from the state.

Therefore, it is worth checking again all datasets that are to be closed and assess the potential risks and benefits of their publication. If there are no threats, then such a register needs to be published in full. If they there are threats, sensitive information needs to be concealed and the rest of the data published. Complete closure of sets and registers will harm Ukrainians much more.

The material was created with the support of USAID / UK aid project “Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services / TAPAS”

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In November 2014 Ukraine became one of the first countries in the world to adopt a law which makes it obligatory for the companies to identify their beneficial owners. This information was stored in the state registry of legal persons, private entrepreneurs and civic unions. But in order to use the registry and search the information on companies sorted by beneficial owners, one needed to pay a fee.

Public officials who submit their declarations in electronic format also have to disclose the companies where they hold the beneficial ownership, does not matter in which country the company is legally registered. Nevertheless, the search mechanism is available only by the officials’ name.

On May 22, 2017 Ukraine has signed the Memorandum among Transparency International Ukraine and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the State Agency for E-Governance of Ukraine and OpenOwnership to become the first country to integrate its national central register of beneficial ownership with the OpenOwnership Register. It means that Ukraine provided beneficial ownership data to be automatically available on the OpenOwnership Register, which links beneficial ownership data from around the world.

Starting from August 2017, Ukraine has published its register on open data portal in the open data format available for everyone and the registry is updated regularly. It was also one of the commitments during the Anti-Corruption Summit in London and Paris Declaration during OGP Global Summit to open the registry. In Open Government Partnership Action Plan for 2016-2018, Ukraine made a commitment on making a better mechanism for verification of beneficial owners. The mechanism was not established, but some donors are supporting projects on the verification.

TI and Open Ownership colleagues identified a number of key areas on which Ukraine needs to focus to improve the situation with disclosure of beneficiary owners.

• Level of compliance:The current low level of compliance (less than 20% of all Ukrainian companies are accounted for) demonstrates the need for a stronger system of sanctions and robust enforcement.
• Data quality:There are currently a number of limitations that lower the quality and usability of the data collected. These include a lack of beneficial ownership data in machine-readable format, unreliable systems of disambiguation for individuals and companies, a lack of granularity in the data (in particular on the means of control), and no representation of chains of ownership.
• Maintenance of records:Currently, no information is given on when the data was submitted, and no confirmation statement is required. This makes it impossible to assess the timeliness of the data being submitted.
• Validation: There is a clear need to close possible loopholes by requiring the reporting of detailed beneficial ownership data, including by using the definition of “beneficial owner” contained in the law as a basis for creating a clear test of beneficial ownership to share as guidance.

In the panel discussion on disclosure of information about beneficiary owners Ukraine was also represented by deputy Minister of Justice Serhii Pietukhov. The annual IMF/WB meeting takes place in Indonesia. The executive director of TI Ukraine joined the meeting at the invitation of the Secretariat of the global anti-corruption movement Transparency International.

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Taking into account how urgent it is to have regulatory agencies introduce this standard, on 4 September 2018, the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine and the State Agency for E-Governance of Ukraine held a workshop/presentation on implementation of the first standard of open data set of regulatory agencies in Ukraine.

Event participants learned about provisions of the standard and opportunities of its use for adequate compliance with legislative requirements concerning publication of open data sets of regulatory agencies on the public portal data.gov.ua.

Open data are needed to increase transparency and effectiveness of public and municipal governance and to facilitate development of the economy. They form the basis for successful social and commercial projects.

Open data are often confused with publication of information on the websites of public agencies. In fact, they mean information in open formats which allow its convenient and automatic processing, free use for personal or commercial purposes.

“Implementation of the first standard of open data set of regulatory agencies in Ukraine will facilitate the reform pertaining to deregulation, which aims at reducing the regulatory pressure on business. Simplification of administrative procedures required for economic activity and reducing their number, reducing the number of supervisory agencies and frequency of inspections, annulment of unfounded permits and licenses are all possible thanks to local deregulation. Besides, publication of data by regulatory agencies in compliance with the standard is a powerful tool for the public and the business community, which will allow them to become active participants of regulatory activity, always control the activity of regulatory agencies and track the instances of violation of current legislation by public officials, to stand up for their rights and lawful interests,” says Head of the SRS Kseniia Liapina.

“Open Government policy in Ukraine presupposes that all information available to the state must be available to the citizens and business. Of course, other than personal data and information with restricted access. At the end of 2017, the Government approved an updated Directive 835, which doubled the number of data sets which must be published by public agencies as open data on the single national portal data.gov.ua, bringing the total number of such data sets to 600. Among these sets, information on regulatory acts whose quality and effectiveness directly affect the work of business merits special attention. Thus, today, we are making a confident step towards opening all local regulatory acts based on universal open standards to enable their clear understanding, analysis, comparison – any free use by business, media and the public,” says First Deputy Head of the State Agency for E-Governance Oleksii Vyskup.

“Open, transparent, universally available regulatory policy is a fundamental element of development of the economy and attraction of investments. Not only will it allow citizens and the business to organize their life and work in a better and easier way, but it will also provide a possibility to make plans and forecasts for the future. Transparency of regulatory policy is also an important part of anti-corruption activity, since it is hard for corruption to exist and develop if there is transparency and access. Therefore, our project supports opening a large mass of data which have been closed and unavailable until now,” says director of the TAPAS project Petro Matiyashek.

“Publication of the list of current regulatory acts on the Unified State Open Data Portal is one of the indicators of methodology of the transparency ranking of investment sector. We check whether this list has been published, including when an act came into effect, the deadlines for basic, repeated and regular effectiveness tracking and information on the place of publication. Overall, five indicators in the methodology are related to regulatory policy implementation, and we believe it makes investment sector in cities much more transparent,” explains project manager of Transparent Cities Kateryna Tsybenko.

“The quality of data is one of key issues for the use of open data. For the sets whose publication is required by the law, apart from the general standards set forth in CMU Directive 835 of 21 October 2015, it is advisable to develop certain specific standards which would allow to unify them in some way. We are thankful for support of our initiative and proud to be involved in creation of the first such standard of open data set for regulatory agencies. It is, after all, these very data that have great potential, since they allow to accelerate local deregulation of economic activity and improve administration process by digitization and automation, as it should happen in XXI century,” says member of the Public Council under the SRS, CEO of the project Regulatory Map of Ukraine Oleksandr Pliva.

Among other participants of the event, there were representatives of structural units of oblast state administration on implementation of state regulatory policy, officials of oblast state administrations responsible for publication of public information in the open data format, representatives of Association of Ukrainian Cities and local self-government agencies, civil society organizations, Eastern Europe Foundation, Eurasia Foundation, SRS experts, experts on regulatory policy implementation and the media.

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The eHealth system has been operating in test mode from September 2017, when the registration of a medical facility and doctors in the system was made technically available, as well as entering the data of patient declarations. After the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On State Financial Guarantees of Public Health Care” and the establishment of the National Health Service, the state will be able to pay a physician for each patient, and the patients will receive free medical services guaranteed by the state. Thus, eHealth will help realize the principle of “money follows the patient.”  Apart from that, the eHealth system contains a functionality developed on the basis of the central component to support the “Affordable Medicines” program.

Ulana Suprun thanked the Project Office team and noted that this work had become an example of how not only to develop an important IT product for the state in the short term. Most importantly, the principles and values ​​that the public, the state and business declared at the beginning of the project, while signing a joint Memorandum, were respected. ” We are very eager to see eHealth working no longer in the test mode, and the doctor’s activities containing less paperwork and more of engagement with the patient. We are grateful and have learned a lot in cooperation with your team. You have created a truly unique thing,” added Acting  Minister of Healthcare.

“With donor support, the eHealth Project Office has developed the functionality that was required by the Ministry of Healthcare to initiate the medical reform. We managed to offer such architecture and software components which allow us to develop a full-fledged eHealth system in Ukraine at a minimum cost. This is confirmed by the results of a technical evaluation carried out by an independent expert at the request of the Ministry. The expert made a clear conclusion about the compliance of the proposed solution with the declared characteristics and the signed Memorandum, and MVP eHealth is recommended for commissioning without further reservations. So, from now on, the Project Office at TI Ukraine will cease its activities, but some team members will continue to support eHealth until the information is completely passed on to the team of the Ministry of Healthcare and the newly created SE Electronic Health, ” commented Yurii Buhai, Head of the eHealth Project Office.

“The first stage of implementation of any changes is the most difficult,” said Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, executive director of Transparency International Ukraine. “We expect the state to provide leadership and proactivity in the further development and implementation of the electronic healthcare system.The MoH has declared a very ambitious program of change, and we will have to overcome a lot of obstacles along the way. We have virtually created the future for us today, but what it is going to be like depends on all of us. From now on, the task of the public sector is to ensure that the pace of this reform is stable, and eHealth development continues with the observance of the declared principles”, he added.

Dmytro Sherembey, chairman of the Coordinating Board of the All-Ukrainian Network of PLWH, noted that the introduction of the National Electronic Health Care System aims to save patients’ lives. After all, transparency and access to information is a prerequisite for every Ukrainian citizen to receive accessible and timely medical care. “It is important that every patient knows his doctor and receives qualitative help and each doctor has a clear and honest motivation,” said Dmytro.

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Another Order #35 issued by Yaroslav Yurchyshyn approves the new version of the Directive on Commission for Review of Applications Concerning Violations in the Work of the Electronic Healthcare System and Making Decisions on Connection/Disconnection of an MIS Operator to/from the Electronic Healthcare System.

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Organized by: Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

Participants:

Olena Sukmanova – Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine on State Registration;

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn – Executive Director, Transparency International Ukraine.

Summary.  At the International Conference on Transparency of Beneficiary Ownership, which took place in Jakarta (Indonesia), Ukraine was awarded for considerable progress in disclosure of beneficiary owners of companies and development of related legislation. At the press-conference, the participants will talk about the work that Ukraine is doing on implementation of the principle of transparency of beneficiary ownership, how the register of data on beneficiary owners works, Ukraine’s achievements and challenges in this area. It is noteworthy that, as of now, there are only two countries which have disclosed the data on beneficiary ownership – Ukraine and the UK.

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A vital step has been taken to implement the previously signed Memorandum of Understanding and develop cooperation between the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the State Agency for E-Governance, Transparency International Ukraine and the OpenOwnership consortium to transfer information about beneficial owners to the Global Registry.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, on his Facebook page commented: “Good News! Ukraine has launched data on beneficiaries of companies and has become the first country in the world joining the Global Registry of Beneficial Owners – the Transparency International Initiative to Promote Transparency and Fight Corruption. Open data is the core for building a transparent and efficient state, as well as a powerful source of development for commercial and community projects. As a result, media and the public can easily use and analyze open data to ensure public control, and IT-business – to create new online services and projects that will enrich the economy and will be useful to its users. Open Ukraine Together!”

Disclosure of beneficial owners is one of the obligations under the National Action Plan and the Paris Declaration on the Implementation of Open Government Partnership Initiative, as well as the outcome documents of the Anti-corruption Summit in London in 2016. Available end-user data is important for fighting corruption and corporate accountability issues. After the launch of the Global Registry in April 2017, Ukraine has become the first country which officially confirm its willingness to integrate data on beneficiaries in an electronic format.

“Ukraine is developing new ways to cooperate within the global partnership initiative taking part in development of the Register of Beneficial Owners. Disclosure of beneficiaries can be considered as the launch of a powerful tool for fighting corruption and preventing grand corruption,” explained Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, executive director of TI Ukraine.

To launch the Global Registry of the beneficial owners, a great contribution was made by a consortium of international organizations: Transparency International, OpenCorporates, World Wide Web Foundation, Global Witness, the B Team, ONE Campaign та Open Contracting Partnership. This step is the result of the member countries political will as a part of the global Anti-Corruption Summit held in London in May 2016. The Registry has become an authoritative source of information about the company and organizations owners. These data will link different jurisdictions, sectors, and databases.

“Dream, faith in the victory, reliable and responsible partners, well-developed strategy and tactics is the key to achieving results in the near future. Another challenge is to integrate our data into the Global Register of Beneficial Owners and present the results during the UN General Assembly in September this year,” said Olesia Arkhypska, Transparency International Ukraine, expert on governance, member of the Coordination Council on the implementation of the Open Government Partnership Initiative.

Chronology:

August 7-8, 2017 – representatives of the Global Register of Beneficial Owners (OOR) Zosia Sztykowski, Project Coordinator, and Chris Taggart, Executive Director and Founder of OpenCorporates visited Ukraine.

July 27, 2017 –  the official invitation on behalf of the leaders of The B Team to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to participate in the Plenary Session “Toward a New Trust: Serving Public Interests Through Transparency and Integrity” between Heads of State, global business and civil society leaders, on September 19, 2017, New York, USA during the UN General Assembly

June 16, 2017 – Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation was signed between the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the State Agency for E-Governance of Ukraine, Transparency International Ukraine and BitFury Holding BV. On the development of blockchain technology at state registers and land cadastre, development of the first Development Index of blocks in the public sector and the receipt of the first data audit node for a public organization.

On June 14, 2017 – the international initiative “Open Government Partnership” congratulated Ukraine, the first of all countries which joined the Global Register of Beneficial Owners.

May 22, 2017 –  The Memorandum of Understanding and Development of Cooperation between the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the State Agency for E-Government, Transparency International Ukraine and the OpenOwnership Consortium on the transfer of information on beneficiary owners to the Global Registry was signed.

May 18, 2017 – The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine supported the initiative of Transparency International Ukraine to transfer information on beneficial owners to the Global Registry and approved amendments to Resolution No. 593, September 8, 2017.

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The pressure of the Security Service of Ukraine on businesses in the field of open data caused a wave of outcry among investigative journalists and civil corruption fighters, for whom the work with open data is a professional need. Instead of expanding the quality and quantity, of filling up the registries and bringing them in accordance with the law, to protect the restricted data according to the law, the State decided to fight some specific representatives of businesses which provide data collection services.

According to the Executive Director of Тransparency Іnternational Ukraine, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, the Security Service of Ukraine should fight the problem at its source, not its consequences: «We stand for two approaches. The first one is to provide protection of/for restricted registries and to fight the illegal sale of their data. The second is to open all the registers permitted by the law, which are of great public interest. In Great Britain, for example, there is free access to company registers containing all the information about their history, reports, employees, etc.  In Ukraine, the data on final beneficiaries and company founders that are still not publicly available and not entered in the auto register of the Ministry of Justice (АРІ)».

According to the Law of Ukraine “On Access to Public Information», in case of great public interest (a number of requests) information managers can make a set of additional non-confidential data public.

ТІ Ukraine proposes to concentrate on the improvement of the registers, to bring them in accordance with the law, and to stop the selective pressure on businesses.

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