Upon instruction of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by its Resolution of 7 February 2011 # 77 established the Coordinating Centre for implementation of the EU – Ukraine Action Plan on visa liberalisation.
The Coordinating Centre is a permanently functioning body under the Government of Ukraine, the main task of which is to consolidate efforts and coordinate activities of the central executive authorities within the framework of implementation of the EU – Ukraine Action Plan on visa liberalisation.
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The establishment of the Coordinating Centre launched functioning of a state mechanism aimed at ensuring fulfilment by Ukraine of the criteria, necessary for the establishment by the European Union a visa-free regime for short-stay travels of Ukrainian nationals.
The Coordinating Centre is headed by the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister for Economic Development and Trade Andriy Klyuyev.
The structure of the Centre is made by the ministers for Foreign Affairs, Justice, Internal Affairs, Finance, Health, Education and Science, Youth and Sport, as well as the heads of the State Border Guard Service, the State Migration Service, the State Service for Personal Data Protection, the State Customs Service, the State Service for Financial Monitoring, the State Service for Special Communication and Protection of Information, the State Service for Medicine an Drugs Control, the Security Service.
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