02 June 2017, 17:13
Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety - on energy efficiency
The committee urges the Parliament to consider and adopt a pile of draft bills on energy efficiency in Ukraine: bill No.5598 on energy efficiency fund, bill No.4901 on commercial accounting of public utilities, bill No.4941-d on energy efficiency of constructions, and bill No.1581-d on housing and communal services. Poor energy efficiency is a weak spot of Ukraine’s economy, and the volume of energy to produce a GDP’s unit in Ukraine over doubles the world average.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Hanna Hopko, the Committee’s Head met with Philip Barton, the Director General, Consular and Security at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on June 1, together with Judith Gough, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Ukraine, and some Ukrainian MPs.
The Ukrainian party thanked Great Britain for the consistent support in reforming, modernization of Ukrainian army, and economic cooperation. The need in further pressing on Russia and opposing its propaganda was also stressed.
The British side voiced its stance upon steady opposing the Russian aggression, and assured in supporting Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Lack of proper monitoring and checking of the local industrial facilities might lead to an environmental disaster on the occupied territories. That position was also underlined at the meeting. The parties later on had talks over joint scientific and security projects, follow-up reforms supporting.
Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement
…recommends the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to accept bill No.6401 on the first reading. The bill, being harmonized with the European Court of Human Rights’ practices, mainly amends the Ukrainian code of administrative offences through restricting an administrative detention term to three days, increasing a span of fines for offences where administrative detention is no more applicable etc.