The Public Oversight Board of the Annual National Program (ANP) under the aegis of the NATO-Ukraine Commission has identified the priority areas for updating ANP in 2022. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to sign the draft shortly.

The Board has already sent its 10-page-long recommendations. The entire version is available in the European Pravda’s article Six Priorities for Ukraine-NATO Rapprochement: What Zelensky Must Change in 2022.

1. Reforming the Security Service of Ukraine. The international advisory group’s recommendations should serve as the basis of the reform. The actors must also establish a democratic and civil oversight of the special or intelligence agencies.

2. Ensuring the seamless work of anti-corruption agencies. Ukraine must ensure the lawful election of the NABU executive as well as the institutional independence of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) from the General Prosecution. Kyiv also needs to guarantee that no third party interferes in the investigations carried out by the NABU and the SAPO as well as the High Anticorruption Court’s jurisdiction. It must likewise ensure that the General Prosecutor and SAPO’s elections are non-political.

3. Reforming the Constitutional Court and Ukraine’s judicial system. For example, by updating the Supreme Council of Justice’s composition, monitoring the judges’ lifestyle (ensuring that their income sources and property are of lawful origin), criminalizing the judges’ arbitrariness in court proceedings, and electing a new composition of the SupremeQualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine’s that would be trusted within society

4. Reforming defense procurement. Particularly, by ensuring that the defense resources are being managed under the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Implementation, and Evaluation program in line with the NATO member states' standards and practices.

5. Taking urgent measures in the energy sector and creating energy reserves for the  2022-2023 heating season necessary for strengthening stability in the country.

6. Reforming antitrust law. Kyiv must ensure that the Antimonopoly Committee is transparent and financially and operationally independent.

Read more in EP’s article Six Priorities for Ukraine-NATO Rapprochement: What Zelensky Must Change in 2022.