The Ukrainian parliament is experiencing a "crisis of legislative effectiveness," Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak has said.

"The Ukrainian parliament is experiencing a period of crisis in terms of legislative effectiveness," he said at a meeting with the heads of the diplomatic missions of the EU member states and the United States in Kyiv on Friday.

"Of the 958 bills that have to be considered, only 12 documents have been adopted as a whole since the election of the new composition of the Verkhovna Rada as of April 1 this year," the parliament's press service quoted him as saying.

Rybak said that "among the laws that were not adopted is a package of bills without which the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU is simply impossible."

He also said that the current parliament "is practically becoming incapacitated due to obstruction tactics that is being used by the minority as the primary method of intra-parliamentary struggle." Rybak noted that 17 out of the 28 plenary meetings of the second session of the Verkhovna Rada of the seventh convocation had been disrupted.

"The reasons for this blocking were different, but the result was the same: the complete plenary inactivity of the parliament," he said.