11:10 22.11.2017

NCER meeting fails to take place due to lack of quorum

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NCER meeting fails to take place due to lack of quorum

A meeting of the National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) scheduled for November 21 failed to take place due to a lack of quorum, the regulator has reported on its website.

As reported, the meetings of the NCER last week and on Monday also failed to take place due to a lack of quorum. Commission member Borys Tsyhanenko is on sick leave.

The commission consists of seven members. Currently it has only four members (Dmytro Vovk, Viktoria Morozova, Ruslan Mashliakivsky and Borys Tsyhanenko).

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in the decree dated March 23, 2017 approved the plan for the rotation of the chairman and members of the NCER, according to which Yuriy Holliak and Volodymyr Yevdokymov are to be dismissed within six months from the date of entry into force of the law on NCER; Viktoria Morozova and Borys Tsyhanenko no later than 12 months; Ruslan Mashliakivsky and Chairman of the NCER Dmytro Vovk no later than 18 months. Late May, the president dismissed Holliak and Yevdokymov from the post of NCER members.

NCER Members are be selected by a nomination commission consisting of five people: two delegates are sent by the president, two by the parliament (from the committee of the fuel and energy complex and the housing and utilities committee), and one by the Cabinet of Ministers. The head of the NCER will be elected by the members of the commission in voting by secret ballot. The head will be re-elected every two years after the approval of the first commission.

Poroshenko on November 17 chose Vasyl Kotko and Semen Potashnik who will be included in the tender commission for the selection of candidates for the posts of the NCER members. Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada (Svitlana Holikova and Vasyl Yastrubynsky) and the Cabinet of Ministers (Mykola Nitsak) gave their representatives to the nomination commission.

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