The draft law No. 4079 “On Amending the Law of Ukraine ‘On Geographic Names’ to Improve Activities Related to the Establishment, Regulation, Record-Keeping, Registration, Use and Preservation of Geographic Names” regulates the record-keeping, registration, use and preservation of geographic names, specifies and demarcates the powers of state authorities and local self-government bodies and also economic subjects. The bill proposes to resolve the issues:
- on public administration in the field of activities related to the establishment of names of geographical objects, as well as the standardization, accounting, registration, use and preservation of geographical names;
- on the powers of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in this area;
- by the powers of the specially authorized executive authority on geographical names;
- the procedure for naming and renaming a geographical object;
- creation and maintenance of the State Register of Geographical Names in electronic form, accounting and state registration of geographical names, providing access to information of this register, to determine its holder and administrator.