Oleksandr Kuzmuk, the chair of the subcommittee reporting on the prepared for the second reading bill (Reg. No. 10431), noted that it aims at bringing the periods of defence planning in the Armed forces and other military formations in line with the periods of state development planning.
The bill suggests a new version of the current Law and determines the tasks, principles, types and order of conducting defense planning as well as the powers of state body authorities in this sphere. According to the bill "defence planning is the part of the system of state strategy planning regarding determination of goals, directions and priorities of security and defense forces development, tasks, measures and deadlines for their implementation, as well as personnel strength, armament, military and special equipment, amounts of material, technical, energy, financial and information resources, provant, land plots and waterway divisions, communications, funds and property to reach the necessary level of capacity of defense and security forces".
The bill provides principles and tasks of defence planning.
The bill determines that “defence planning is subdivided into long term (more than five years), medium term (three to five years) and short term (one to three years)”.
While preparing the bill for the second reading the Committee received 84 suggestions, 76 of which were fully taken into account, 1 – partly, and 7 – rejected.