Opening the session, A.Parubii reminds the audience that today’s agenda covers two blocks of issues – mass media and advertisement, and environmental issues.
The centerpiece of the block will be the draft bill on audio-visual media protecting our national and linguistic space. This is the point of national security in war.
The Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appealed to MPs ‘to support this bill providing a 75% Ukrainian language quota for the nation-wide channels, and the 50% quota for the regional channels’.
The MPs proceed
to discussions...
Amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On Education’ have been adopted under bill No.6437.
The altered law now regulates access of persons with special educational needs to educational services in schools to wide extent:
-it enshrines the right to education for persons with special educational needs at any schools, including state-owned and communal ones – free of charge regardless of disability categorization;
-it triggers off distance and individual tuition;
-it designates notions ‘person with special educational needs’, ‘inclusive education’;
-it provides gaining of psychological and pedagogical services, and remedial and developing rehabilitative assistance for persons with special educational needs;
-it establishes inclusive and special groups (classes) for a.m. persons in general education establishments.
A set of amendments to some Ukrainian laws regarding languages of audio-visual (electronic) mass-media adopted under bill No.5313.
The document standardizes the application of languages in broadcasting by nation-wide, regional and local agents, introducing some new notions.
The new law reads that overall volume of weekly broadcasting by nation-wide and regional agents must be performed in state language up to 75 per cent of total length of the programs and movies within the run of 07:00-18:00 and 18:00-22:00. The quota of 60% is set for the local broadcasters.
Bill No.3454 regulating ad placement and bill No.5607 extending retention period for broadcasted programs up to 1 year, have been adopted in their first reading.
The Chairperson ended the meeting.