14:01 28.11.2017

President dismisses NCER member Tsyhanenko, temporarily deprives NCER of quorum

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President dismisses NCER member Tsyhanenko, temporarily deprives NCER of quorum

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed Borys Tsyhanenko as a member of the National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER), reducing the number of members of the commission along with its head to three, below a quorum.

The respective decree of the head of state, No. 390 of November 27, was published on his website on Tuesday.

Tsyhanenko has been on a sick leave since November 13, thus the NCER could not make any decisions.

After the last staffing decision by the president, the commission comprises its head, Dmytro Vovk, and two of six members - Viktoria Morozova and Ruslan Mashliakivsky.

Ukrainian President 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. In 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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