- The Verkhovna Rada has passed today the following draft bills/resolutions to presently emerge as full-blown pieces of legislation:
Bill No.2695 < First reading > “On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine concerning harsher liability for certain traffic-safety offences”.
The bill aims to ensure the safety of road users, save lives and health of citizens, as well as enhance road discipline through imposing respective sanctions for committing offenses and secure the implementation of administrative decisions in the field of road safety.
By amending an array of sectoral codes and acts of law the bill is (i) to introduce far harsher responsibility for alcohol- and/or drug-affected driving (sailing, boating, rowing, etc.), (ii) to streamline the procedure for being called to account for administrative offences (captured by fixed automatic traffic cameras) through abolishing demerit points penalties, (iii) to legally entitle the police to use video-recording means with obligatory subsequent attaching the videos captured to the offence report and the like.
Bill No.3719 < Second reading > “On amendments to Clause 3 of Section X ‘Transitional and Final Provisions’ of the Law of Ukraine ‘On complete general secondary education’ regarding enhanced opportunities for the educational network transformation”.
Within a year after the effective date of the law, founders of boarding schools (sanatorium-type residential schools or educational establishments) must convert the type of such establishments into any other type of the general secondary education institutions stipulated by this law, or else wind up such establishments by means of their reorganizing or closing down.
Bill No.3199 < First reading > “On amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On the electricity market’”.
The bill aims to entitle the ministers to establish regular compulsory sales of electricity in given volumes through specialized e-auctions for certain enterprises (electricity producers, power companies), listed in the law, in the performance of long-term bilateral contracts solely in favour of some categories of end-users prescribed by the law in question.
State-owned power companies (incl.50%+, “golden shares”) together with all their subsidiaries and “daughters” will be entitled to contractually export power in bypass of the auctions mentioned above.
Bill No.3486 < First reading > “On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning social protection of population during the quarantine introduced to forestall the emergence and spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)”.
In general, the bill aims to strengthen social protection of those sections of the population that may undergo negative ramifications of the coronavirus disease spread.
Bill No.2424” < Second reading > “On amendments to the Air Code of Ukraine as to improving the mechanism for levying public dues on every passenger leaving Ukraine and every ton of cargo that arrives or leaves a Ukrainian airport”.
The new law has regularised levying public dues on every passenger leaving Ukraine and every ton of cargo that ins or outs Ukraine by air.
No dues will be levied in case of VIP special flights, humanitarian cargoes (to and from), casualty, medical evacuations and emergency flights, conveying passengers duly exempted from paying the dues as well as toddlers (up to 2 YO) and transit passengers.