Azarov demands punish officials for illegal business checks

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov demands to immediately punish those officials, who initiate the illegal checks of business.

"The number of inspections has decreased, but the business still considers them to be significant barriers ... I require to immediately punish for illegal inspections. Each inspection without legal justification is emergency," he said, opening the Cabinet’s meeting, ForUm correspondent reports.

The PM stressed that each inspection of enterprise should be appointed only by the head of the supervisory authority. "The head is personally responsible for relevancy of the check and the consequences," Azarov noted.

According to him, first of all it concerns the Incomes and Fees Ministry, which should be generator not of inspections, but of economic incentives for good business practices.