On 17 July, the Law of Ukraine ‘On Amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offences, the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and Other Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Increasing Liability for Corruption or Corruption-Related Offences’ No. 4496 dated 17.06.2025 (hereinafter - Law No. 4496) came into force.
This law amended Article 59 of the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption” by adding a fourth part, which sets the time limits for storing information in the Unified State Register of Persons Who Committed Corruption or Corruption-Related Offences (the “Register of Violators”).
Taking into account these legislative changes, the NACP has started removing information from the Register of Offenders that has expired. The Register currently contains more than 55,000 entries on individuals and legal entities entered in connection with violations committed by them.
Removal of information on persons brought to administrative responsibility
Information on persons held administratively liable for corruption-related administrative offences is now kept in the Register of Offenders for a year. As of 17 July 2025, the total number of entries in the Register of such offences was 34,064.
The removal of such data will be carried out gradually in order of priority, starting with the records entered into the Register of Violators earlier. The removal of all entries for which there are relevant grounds as of 17 July 2025 is scheduled to be completed by 31 December 2025. The removal of such information from the register will be based on the data available in the register, and no application to the NACP is required.
Removal of information on persons brought to criminal liability
Information about persons who have been prosecuted (as of 17 July 2025, the Register of Offenders contains 18579 such records) will be removed subject to the cancellation or expungement of a conviction for a relevant corruption offence on the basis of an application from the person whose information is contained in the Register of Offenders.
The application for removal of data from the Register of Offenders is to be made in any form, indicating the applicant's personal data (full name, date and place of birth, registration number of the taxpayer's account card).
The application must be accompanied by an extract on the absence or presence of a criminal record generated in the information and analytical system ‘Accounting of information on bringing a person to criminal liability and the presence of a criminal record’ of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The extract must be generated no later than one month from the date of submission of the application for removal of information from the Register of Offenders.
Applications for removal of information from the Register of Offenders can be sent to the NACP by post and by e-mail: info@nazk.gov.ua.
Removal of information on persons brought to disciplinary liability
The Law No. 4496 does not provide for the removal from the Register of Offenders of information about persons who have been disciplined for corruption-related offences (currently, the register contains 2,708 such entries).
At the same time, the NACP considers it possible to remove such information from the register after one year from the date of imposition of the disciplinary sanction, relying on the provisions of part 1 of Article 151 of the Labour Code of Ukraine. In order to regulate the procedure for removing such data from the NACP's Register of Violators, amendments to the Regulation on the Register will be approved in the near future.
The data on persons disciplined for corruption-related offences, available in the Register of Offenders as of 17 July 2025, will be removed from the Register of Offenders gradually by 31 December 2025 in order of priority, starting from the records entered in the Register of Offenders earlier, if there are appropriate grounds. Such information will be removed from the register on the basis of the data available in it, and no application to the NACP is required.
Features of special inspections in connection with the changes
When conducting a special inspection, the NACP will check:
- presence of data on the candidate for office in the Register of Violators;
- presence of grounds for removal of information on the candidate for office from the Register of Violators.
The results of a special inspection will be provided to its initiator only after the data on the candidate for office is removed from the Register of Violators (if there are grounds for this).
At the same time, the special checks will take into account the provisions of Part 2 of Article 19 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Civil Service’, which sets a three-year restriction on entering the civil service for persons subject to administrative penalties for corruption-related offences. The NACP will provide the relevant information to the initiator of the special inspection regardless of the presence/absence of information about the candidate for the position in the Register of Offenders.
Impact of the amendments on public procurement
Please note that the restriction on participation in public procurement procedures provided for in clause 5 of part 1 of Article 17 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Public Procurement’ does not depend on the availability of information about a person in the Register of Offenders and is valid indefinitely. In other words, a person who has ever been prosecuted for corruption or corruption-related offences will never be able to participate in tenders.
