On October 16, after seven months of work, the Security Committee approved the draft law on the SBU reform for the repeated first reading. AntAC has analyzed the text considered during the Committee's hearing (it has not been published yet) and contemplates that although that the Parliament has made a number of steps forward, it is still difficult to call these changes a real reform.

On October 22, during the interview to TV channels, President Zelenskyi falsely claimed that Ukraine fulfilled all requirements for the next tranche. In fact, so far in the field of good governance Ukraine failed to timely adopt the law on the relaunch of High Council of Justice (due by the end of October). There is also serious concern over the issue of independence of the National Bank and the National Anti-corruption Bureau. 

Recently, the National Agency for Corruption Prevention adopted new rules of automated verification  of declarations of public officials. Joint legal analysis conducted by Transparency International Ukraine and AntAC finds that the adopted rules allow to not consider declarations of 2019 and there are major loopholes in the embedded risk-detection mechanism.

Bihus.info journalists revealed documents confirming plans of Minister of Health Stepanov to once again take control of medical procurements. The Ministry suggested taking them away from independent SE Medical Procurements of Ukraine. The latter has shown significant savings and transparency in conducting procurements. Even though the MoH has already significantly complicated the process of procurements for the SE, which results in the delay of supply of crucial PPE, medical equipment, and medicines.