Pursuant to the Law, the depressed territories are divided into the following groups: a district; an industrial district; a rural district; a city of regional, republican in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea importance.
The territory is granted the status of a depressed area in order to create legal, economic and organizational prerequisites for the special events to be taken by the public authority and local self-government bodies to promote the development of such territories.
A relevant Bill was registered under Reg. No. 3567-1.