United territorial communities of Ukraine

An amalgamated territorial community (Ukrainian: Об'єднана територіальна громада, Obyednana terytorialʹna hromada), in short, is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine. It is an enlarged community consisting of other territorial communities, formerly known as councils (miskrada, silrada, selyshchna rada), residents of which decided to unite. According to the Law of Ukraine adopted in 1997, a community, also known as "hromada", is composed of its residents who are united by living in village, settlement, city on permanent basis or voluntary association of residents of several villages that has one administrative center. The communities form raions, several raions form oblast. City communities of cities Kiev and Sevastopol[nb 1] have a special status and are not part of any raion or oblast.

United territorial communities of Ukraine as of 2020

According to December 2019 draft constitutional changes submitted to parliament by President Volodymyr Zelensky United territorial communities are planned to replace the Raions of Ukraine.[2] On 6 March 2020 Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that (at the time) 1,045 united territorial communities had been established and that 350 more had to be created.[3] The united territorial communities have already taken over most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare).[4]

History

Active formation of these communities started in 2015 and is part of couple of reforms such as the decentralization reform and the administrative division reform. It is planned that they will replace all councils (local level territorial units).

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's June 2014 draft constitutional amendments proposed changing the administrative divisions of Ukraine, which should include regions, districts and "hromadas".[5]

On 5 February 2015 the Ukrainian parliament adopted the law "On voluntary association of territorial communities" that creates united territorial communities meaning settlement councils, rural councils and a city of district significance can create a new administrative unit.[6] Any amalgamated hromada with a city as an administrative centre is an urban hromada, any amalgamated hromada with an urban-type settlement as an administrative centre is a settlement hromada, and any amalgamated hromada with a village as an administrative centre is a rural hromada.[7] New local elections in these united territorial communities were then held.[8] 226 will be holding elections in 2018 and 2019.[9] The first 252 were held in 2017.[10]

The Law "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine" stipulates that local budgets should have enough money to be administered by local self-government bodies.[11] Because many of the small rural councils and cities of district significance could never hope to do this the new administrative unit united territorial community was created.[11] United territorial communities collect and spend more local taxes then the Raions of Ukraine were ever allowed to.[4]

United territorial communities are planned to replace the Raions according to December 2019 draft constitutional changes submitted to parliament by President Volodymyr Zelensky.[2]

On 6 March 2020 Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that 1,045 united territorial communities had already been established in Ukraine, noting that 350 more had to be created.[3]

List of communities
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Kharkiv Oblast
  • Chkalovs'ke United territorial community

Ternopil Oblast
  • Ternopil United territorial community

Vinnytsia Oblast
Territorial communities
Name Center Raion's local councils CRS
Vinnytsia Raion
Vinnytsia city Vinnytsia Vinnytsia Raion 1 settlement Vinnytsia
Illintsi city Illintsi Illintsi Raion 1 city
Illintsi Raion 11 villages
Lypovets city Lypovets Lypovets Raion 1 city
Lypovets Raion 16 villages
Orativ Raion 1 village
Nemyriv city Nemyriv Nemyriv Raion 1 city
Nemyriv Raion 19 villages
Voronovytsia settlement Voronovytsia Vinnytsia Raion 1 settlement
Vinnytsia Raion 1 village
Stryzhavka settlement Stryzhavka Vinnytsia Raion 1 settlement
Vinnytsia Raion 4 villages
Lityn Raion 1 village
Turbiv settlement Turbiv Lypovets Raion 1 settlement
Lypovets Raion 9 villages
Kalynivka Raion 1 village
Yakushentsi village Yakushentsi Vinnytsia Raion 6 villages
Lityn Raion 2 villages
Ahronomichne village Ahronomichne Vinnytsia Raion 4 villages
Luka-Meleshkivska village Luka-Meleshkivska Vinnytsia Raion 4 villages
Tyvriv Raion 2 villages
Lityn village Lityn Lityn Raion 1 settlement
Lityn Raion 13 villages
Zhmerynka Raion
Zhmerynka city Zhmerynka Zhmerynka Raion 1 settlement
Zhmerynka Raion 11 villages		 Zhmerynka
Bar city Bar Bar Raion 1 city
Bar Raion 20 villages
Kopaihorod settlement Kopaihorod Bar Raion 1 settlement
Bar Raion 6 villages
Severynivka village Severynivka Zhmerynka Raion 6 villages
Bar Raion 1 village
Stanislavchyk village Stanislavchyk Zhmerynka Raion 8 villages
Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion
Mohyliv-Podilskyi city Mohyliv-Podilskyi Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion 10 villages Mohyliv-Podilskyi
Khmilnyk Raion
Khmilnyk city Khmilnyk Khmilnyk Raion 15 villages Khmilnyk
Koziatyn city Koziatyn Koziatyn Raion 7 villages Koziatyn
Kalynivka settlement Kalynivka Kalynivka Raion 1 city
Kalynivka Raion 22 villages
Hlukhivtsi settlement Hlukhivtsi Koziatyn Raion 2 settlements
Koziatyn Raion 7 villages
Makhnivka village Makhnivka Koziatyn Raion 8 villages
Samhorodok village Samhorodok Koziatyn Raion 10 villages
Ivaniv village Ivaniv Kalynivka Raion 6 villages
Haisyn Raion
Haisyn city Haisyn Haisyn Raion 1 city
Haisyn Raion 16 villages
Ladyzhyn city Ladyzhyn Tulchyn Raion 1 village Ladyzhyn
Bershad city Bershad Bershad Raion 1 city
Bershad Raion 18 villages
Dashiv settlement Dashiv Illintsi Raion 1 settlement
Illintsi Raion 11 villages
Dzhulynka village Dzhulynka Bershad Raion 2 villages
Krasnopilka village Krasnopilka Haisyn Raion 6 villages
Teplyk Raion 2 villages
Kunka village Kunka Haisyn Raion 4 villages

Notes
  1. Sevastopol is a city in Crimea. Crimea is currently under dispute by Russia and Ukraine.[1]

References
  1. Gutterman, Steve (18 March 2014). "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  2. "Zelensky's decentralization: without features of Donbass, but with districts and prefects". BBC Ukrainian (in Ukrainian). 16 December 2019.
  3. Development strategies already approved in 19 regions of Ukraine, Ukrinform (7 April 2020)
  4. Where did 354 districts disappear to? Anatomy of loud reform, Glavcom (7 August 2020) (in Ukrainian)
  5. Poroshenko suggests granting status of regions to Crimea, Kyiv, Sevastopol, creating new political subdivision of 'community' Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (26 June 2014)
  6. "Decentralization". The Reforms Guide. 2017-02-10. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  7. "Glossary". Decentralization Reform. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  8. Batkivschyna party says it gets most votes at local elections, Interfax Ukraine (25 December 2017)
    Police investigate voter bribing cases as local elections held in 51 territorial communities, UNIAN (25 December 2017)
  9. Elections Are Around the Corner, and Ukraine’s Political Parties Are Not Ready, Atlantic Council (6 December 2017)
  10. INTERIM REPORT ON OBSERVATION RESULTS OF THE FIRST LOCAL ELECTIONS IN UNITED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES ON 29 October 2017 (19.10.2017 26.10.2017) Archived 28 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine, OPORA (31 October 2017)
    Ukraine holds elections in 51 UTCs today Archived 2017-12-26 at the Wayback Machine, OPORA (24 December 2017)
  11. (in Ukrainian) Elections in the united territorial communities. What is this and what you need, Espreso TV (31 October 2017)
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