Committee on Environmental Policy, Nature Resources Utilization and Elimination of the Consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe
Roundtable ‘Environmental problems in Donbas’
In his speech the committee’s deputy head emphasized importance of struggling for environmental conservation and safety. The gravity of the environmental situation in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts is being deepened by the warfare in a large industrial region plentiful in environmentally hazardous enterprises; the damage to the local environment already caused by the armed conflict has become enormous and oftentimes irreversible – the ecological security in Ukraine’s Donbas has reached just immense proportions.
The meeting was attended by the core Ukrainian ministries and departments, public organizations, research institutes, international experts such as ‘Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue’.
Ecological regeneration in Donbas, environmental activities of the Donetsk’s regional authorities under the ATO, assessment of the environmental harm caused to eastern Ukraine etc. were in the highlight of the roundtable too.
To overcome the environmental fallout there, some primary tasks have been discussed as follows:
-to establish a separate eco-group under the Minsk and Normandy formats;
-to urge the aggressor country to carry out their nature conservation obligations;
-to launch a targeted eco-monitoring programme in eastern Ukraine;
-to redeploy the financing, etc.
A thorough analysis of the roundtable’s outcome will result in an appropriate committee’s decision.
Committee on National Security and Defence
The first reading of the bill No.6473 amending the Ukrainian law on military enlistment contracts, renders an equal gender access to sign an enlistment contract, with the accent that women may only undertake to until the military service age cut-off is reached.
The bill also gives the right for military commissariats (unit commanders) to apply to the Security Service of Ukraine for a thorough screening of figurants as to the crimes against the state.
The draft bill is also supposed to extend the term of service commitment up to two years for those who signed an enlistment contract and are subject to the law of Ukraine No.1769-VIII dated December 6, 2016 on military servicing procedure. The committeemen have approved the draft bill.
Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement
…recommends the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to take the bill No.6353 on the first reading.
The draft bill alters the laws on prevention and counteraction of discrimination in Ukraine, offering to exclude life imprisonment for female first offenders.