On April 26, 2015, a new law requiring companies to have compliance programs came into effect in Ukraine. The law applies to almost all companies participating in public tenders and to state owned enterprises over a certain size. Among other things, it requires companies to appoint a compliance officer with responsibility for implementing the compliance program and encourages companies to conduct regular risk assessments, establish mechanisms for monitoring implementation of the compliance program and include compliance provisions in contracts with third parties. The law is all the more significant because on April 16, President Poroshenko appointed Artem Sytnyk as the first head of Ukraine’s new Anti-Corruption Bureau, who promised to start cooperating immediately with foreign law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, and noted that “the public is not going to wait for the results of the Bureau’s work for years.” To read the full article published on the FCPA Blog click here.
