The Committee on Culture and Spirituality recommends that the Parliament should adopt as a basis the bill on amendments to several laws of Ukraine re increasing state control over lottery sector and directing deductions from state lotteries to financing medicine, culture and sport

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
05 February 2015, 12:34

The bill (Reg. No. 1354-1) suggests using positive experience of financing culture, medicine and sport at the expense of deductions from holding lotteries of other countries in Ukraine, i.e., stipulate for increasing the amount of deductions from holding state lotteries and directing them to support culture (particularly, cinematography), medicine and sports.

Committee members expressed several remarks and suggestions to the bill. However, they stressed that “it is extremely important to initiate the process of refining regulation of lottery sector today, and do everything possible to direct the respective deductions for the development of culture.”