Adopted as a basis the Draft Law “On Amending the Water Code of Ukraine to Adjust the List of Primary Water Users”
Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
16 February 2021, 15:27
The Draft Law No. 3969 “On Amending the Water Code of Ukraine to Adjust the List of Primary Water Users” proposes:
- - to legally regulate the issue of mandatory conclusion of an economic agreement by primary water users with water industry enterprises, the need to legislate the organization of paid services related to the supply of water to legal entities and individuals from reclamation systems and water sources for irrigation or irrigation of drained lands, industrial and communal needs, as well as watering gardens, orchards and rainfed lands and filling bulk reservoirs.
- preservation and restoration of state property at strategic facilities of Ukraine through the provision of paid services.
The daft law proposed that the list of primary water users should include persons having their own water collecting facilities/equipment and receiving water from canals, reservoirs / water economy systems, water pipes of interbasin and intrabasin redistribution of water resources and also proposed that such persons be obliged to conclude water supply contracts with asset-holding enterprises or with enterprises providing for transfer of water to regions with little water.