Committees round-up: Daily
22 October 2019, 18:15
There are // bodies in focus of our committee scan today:
Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk, Luhansk Regions and Autonomous Republic of Crimea, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations
The committee is having its five-day field sitting in the Donbas – i.e. the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. This is the first time in the history of the Ukrainian parliament that a five-day field sitting takes place. All through the devoted time, the committee is expected to be working in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (oblasts).
The parliamentarians are to visit entry and exit checkpoints, inspect war-worn cities and villages, social infrastructures and businesses, and communicate with people living in the grey area as well. Such a format of the sitting will allow the committee members to attain firsthand knowledge about all aspects of the people's life circumstances.
On October 21, the committeemen visited the village of Shyrokyne and had there ample talks with the forced re-settlers of the front-line area. The Shyrokyne residents’ problems are slightly broader than those of other internally displaced persons. In the then evacuation haste, most of Shyrokyne residents had nearly no chance of taking their possessions and they thus lost their property completely. At present, some of the re-settlers have problems with receiving their pensions. Among the most pressing issues for the locals is the non-payment of compensations for their shelling-ruined and lost effects.
The committee trip started from the city of Mariupol (the Donetsk oblast), as this city possesses a great deal of successful experience and has put up the most new residents. The parliamentary delegation got acquainted with the projects and programmes implemented in the city. Municipal authorities of Mariupol are ready to build new houses, and they do have quartering facilities for the reconstruction. Such initiatives are thought to deserve state funding. With the proper financing, Mariupol will provide housing for all displaced persons in some five years. While in Mariupol, the committee became acquainted with the fulfillment of the public environmental obligations by the Illich Iron and Steel Works.
The committee members also visited the Volnovakha District State Administration to see into local problems.
At the “Novotroitske” entry-exit checkpoint, the members of parliament saw the procedure of crossing the demarcation line and the problems that arise during this process.
In Krasnohorivka, they got acquainted with the progress in rebuilding the school No.2, which was damaged by hostile shelling in 2017.
The delegation also looked over local dwelling houses once devastated by heavy shelling. They, too, inspected the progress in recovery works conducted by rescuers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Committee on Law Enforcement
The сommittee recommended that the Verkhovna Rada adopt on the first reading a bill that improves the procedure for modification of charges at a court.
The draft bill No.2165 on amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine regarding refining the charge modification procedure is meant to alter Article 338 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and thus bind a prosecuting officer to inform in writing both the court and the parties litigant about the new details of the criminal infraction incriminated against a person, which were ascertained during the court examination and became grounds for such modification.
The draft bill is also to alter Article 341 of the code to then stipulate that the prosecuting officer is obligated to file the modified bill of indictment to the court within thirty days.
The committeemen recommended the Verkhovna Rada of
Ukraine to take the first reading of the draft bill No.2165 as a basis.