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Deputy director of the department of Accounts Chamber I. Stefaniuk, reporting at the meeting of the committee, noted: the Accounts Chamber arrived at the conclusion that the state does not have a single effective system for providing state social guarantees to privileged groups of citizens in regard to providing them with coal for domestic needs and granting compensatory reliefs in accordance with the Mining Law of Ukraine. Consequently, the same categories of population receive different privileges, which causes social inequity and unreasonable spending of state budget funds.

The representative of the Accounts Chamber stressed the imperfection of normative legal and organizational regulation of issues connected with provision and usage of state budget funds for providing the citizens with coal for domestic needs in 2010-2011.

During the discussion, members of the Committee stressed that there is no proper control on the part of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry after using state budget funds by state-owned enterprises.

Based on the results of discussion of the information provided by the Accounts Chamber, the Committee recommends that the Cabinet of Ministers should:

initiate public hearings together with parties to the social dialogue in order to discuss Government decisions concerning the application of norms of coal supply and necessity of their reconsideration and adoption of single scientifically grounded norms for supplying citizens with coal;

increase state budget allocations under the budgetary program “Restructuring of coal mining and peat extraction industries” considering the necessity to settle all outstanding debts in 2012;

introduce single mechanism of approaching and determining justly determined price for privileged coal and coal bricks; etc.

The Committee has also directed its recommendations to the Ministry of Social Policy, Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, General Prosecutor’s Office, Joint representative body of employers at the national level and trade unions for conducting collective negotiations and social dialogue at the national level, parliamentary Committee on Finance and Banking, Taxation and Customs Policy and Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety.

16 February 2012

14:12

The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn awarded charitable grants to pupils, students, and large families

The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn awarded personalized scholarships and social grants to large families and a grant to the Novohrad-Volynskyi football team “Avanhard” on behalf of his charitable fund “Maybutnie Polissia” in Novohrad-Volynskyi of Zhytomyr region.

Fifty-three pupils and students who showed profound knowledge and special achievements in research have received personalized scholarships. Talented young painters, musicians, singers, sportsmen, and young people with active citizenship are among the nominees of the Fund.

Three families received social grants; one of the families lives in Novohrad-Volynskyi and brings up seven children. The second family resides in Yemilchyno village and raises five children, and lives almost at the cost of their own household. The third family lives in Horodyshche village of Novohrad-Volynskyi district and has eight children.

Awarding grants, V. Lytvyn expressed hope that first laureates will become “good pioneers” in the cause of developing their homeland. “We will initiate support of talents, as geniuses are born in province and we need to support them,” said V. Lytvyn. He stressed one more time that the world is now facing the necessity to search new forms of arrangement, fight for resources, and bringing the world to civilized standards. But the basis for everything will be the quality of education.

14 February 2012

10:55

The Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement organized a working group on preparing the draft Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine to the second reading

The secretaries of the Committee informed that the working group was organized to implement the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as of 09.02.2012 to process remarks and proposals of legal subjects of legislative initiative and submit of the draft Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine (Reg. No. 9700) to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration in the second reading.

The working group includes members of the Committee, representatives of other specialized committees, judicial and law enforcement systems, advocacy, academic institutions, and the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

First planning meeting of the working group will be held on 16.02.2012 at 12.00 a.m. at the address: 3-A Sadova str., room 727 (meeting room).

08 February 2012