Justice Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko has said that the government's draft 2016 national budget did not have the provision that delayed the introduction of the new electronic declaration system until January 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers has drawn up corresponding amendment to the law on the national budget and soon it will be submitted to the parliament.

"Today I learn from media that the law on the budget allegedly has a provision that delays the launch of the electronic declaration system until 2017. It is safe to say that the draft budget that the government submitted to the parliament did not have this provision," he wrote on his Facebook page on Monday.

He said that the government will demand to investigate into the cases to understand how the amendments appeared in the final document.

"As much as someone would like not to see this, we would not allow stopping European integration and corruption fighting processes in Ukraine!" he wrote.

Earlier the government-appointed member of the National Agency for Counteracting and Preventing Corruption, MP from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction Viktor Chumak said that the Verkhovna Rada during the improvement of the law on the national budget for 2016 has postponed for a year - until January 1, 2017 - the introduction of a new system of financial controls over civil servants, providing for the declaration of all assets in an electronic form.

"Electronic declaration rather that the physical launch of the national agency's work is our main obligation to the EU in terms of obtaining a visa-free regime," the deputy wrote in his blog on Facebook.

He noted that the provision was added to the government's draft budget and nobody in the hall of the Verkhovna Rada heard about it.