Hromadas: to be or not to be legal entities?

While amendments to the Constitution in terms of decentralization were discussed, a separate expert workshop was dedicated to the issue of hromadas legal capacity. Currently the Law On the Local Self-Government is being considered, so the issue of defining hromadas legal capacity has turned into a live discussion again.

A hromada as a legal entity is not a structure above the local self-government that can be taken away. Just on the contrary, it is the hromada legal capacity realization and a tool for the self-government to advocate own independence and autonomy.

Such a status involves additional opportunities for judicial defense. Formalisation of the status of a hromada as a legal entity in the Constitution means the right to challenge the laws interfering in the local self-government independence and autonomy at the Constitutional court.

Колонка відображає винятково позицію її автора. За достовірність інформації відповідає автор колонки. Точка зору редакції порталу «Децентралізація» може не збігатися з точкою зору автора колонки.
26.11.2020 - 08:46 | Views: 17050
Дмитро Гурін

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