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2.7.7.2.3. Drafting and submitting to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine a draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine amending the Procedure for Spending State Budget Funds Allocated for Financial Support of Public Associations of Individuals Living with Disabilities, approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated March 3, 2020, No. 166, Procedure for Spending State Budget Funds Allocated for Financial Support of the Ukrainian Association of the Blind and the Ukrainian Society of the Deaf, approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated March 14, 2018, No. 183, and the Procedure for Conducting a Competitive Process to Select Programs (Projects, Activities) Developed by Civil Society Institutions that Receive Financial Support for Their Implementation, approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated October 12, 2011, No. 1049, which:
1) sets forth the requirement that budgetary financial support for implementation of programs (projects, activities) shall be provided to public associations of individuals living with disabilities exclusively on a competitive basis;
2) does not provide for any preferences for specific public associations of individuals living with disabilities;
3) declares to be void the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated March 14, 2018,
No. 183, On Approval of the Procedure for Spending State Budget Funds Allocated for Financial Support of the Ukrainian Association of the Blind and the Ukrainian Society of the Deaf;
4) minimizes opportunities for conducting competitive selection processes without using the software module “Competitive Selection of Projects by Civil Society Institutions” (the electronic system for competitive selection);
5) ensures the publication of all materials of competitive bids, including spending budgets;
6) provides for the possibility of remuneration of competitive selection committee members other than representatives of the Fund for Social Security of Individuals Living with Disabilities, state and municipal officials, while specifying the maximum amount / percentage of such remuneration;
7) establishes additional standards of transparency of the competitive selection process, including the right of representatives of the mass media and the public to attend the meetings of the competitive selection committee, record video and audio, and broadcast the meetings of the competitive selection committee;
8) establishes the requirement that at least depersonalized results of the voting by competitive selection committee members on each issue be made public;
9) establishes the requirement that decisions of the competitive selection committee on the results of evaluation of competitive bids and scores given by each member of the competitive selection committee be made public (in depersonalized form);
10) defines a detailed procedure for appealing the decisions of the competitive selection committee to deny participation in the competitive selection process, access to the results of evaluation of competitive bids, and selection of the winning bidders;
11) stipulates that decisions of the competitive selection committee formed by the Fund for Social Security of Individuals Living with Disabilities shall be appealed in the manner prescribed by the Ministry of Social Policy;
12) stipulates that the winning bidders will receive financial support out of the state budget in accounts opened with state banks (instead of treasury accounts).