Two committees are today in focus:
Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations
ODIHR appreciates the committee’s initiative to form a screening panel of the Ukrainian human rights campaigners when selecting the Ukrainian ombudsman
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) appreciates the initiative of the Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations to form a screening panel of the Ukrainian human rights activists when selecting a new ombudsman of Ukraine and harmonize the ombudsman law with the Paris principles. It was stated in a letter of the ODIHR First Deputy Director Katarzina Gardaphadze to the committee’s head. The letter also states that “according to its mandate ODIHR keeps monitoring the Ukraine’s ombudsman situation and is ready to promote the committee regarding its initiative to reconcile the ombudsman law with the Paris principles. The Office would also welcome the committee’s appeal to deliver a legal opinion over the draft bill”.
The ODIHR First Deputy Director made a remark that the Paris principles do underscore the need in “a procedure that provides for a pluralistic representation of all social forces (civil society)” in shaping the decision-making body over a national human rights institution (NHRI).
She thereupon called on the authorities to keep on to the consistency of the legislative proceeding in adoption of any lawmaking amendments.
“You cannot put public confidence under risk by making steps drawing doubts in legitimacy of the ombudsman,” stressed Katarzina Gardaphadze.
Committee on Construction, Urban Development, Housing and Communal Services
…approved its work plan for the September 2017-January 2018 period. As per the plan, the committee is to preform 84 core draft bills to be tabled to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, among which are as follows:
Bill No.6472 on provision of housing for citizens of Ukraine whose dwellings ruined or destroyed in the aftermath of the armed aggression;
Bill No.6461 on stopgap measures over the ATO period in respect of the moratorium for public utilities payments made by internally displaced persons for their real estate located in temporarily ungovernable human settlements;
Bill No.6140 on maximum penalties to be set for utilities payments arrears and outstanding loans;
Bill No.6041 on reimbursement of damage caused by an act of terrorism or resulted from an anti-terrorist operation;
Bill No.5457 on enjoyment of property in an apartment house (capital repairs of the dwellings);
Bill No.6465 on improvements in exercising the rights of apartment house dwellers;
Bills No.6081, 6081-1 on governing of urban development activities with respect to uplifting investment capabilities in alternative energy production;
Bill No.6420 on a tighter protection of interests of the physically disabled and other physically challenged groups of population urban development activities;
Bill No.6097 on partial restoration of ground areas municipalization for urban development needs;
Bill No.5466 on implementation of responsibility for delivering improper (poor) quality services;
Bill No.5407 on establishment of a parliamentary court of inquiry against the heating and water supply overcharge.
126 side draft bills are also supposed to be submitted up by the committee.
A roundtable “The pressing points of urban and spacial development” for November 2017 and a workshop on practical enjoyment of property in apartment houses for January 2018 are also scheduled by the work plan.