The Committee on Matters of Pensioners, Veterans and Persons with Disabilities does not uphold the draft law on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine re development of software industry and implementation of the national project “Tekhnopolis – creation of innovative development and high technologies infrastructure” and its components

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
24 September 2013, 16:47

Authors of the bill (Reg. No. 2330a) note that it aims at establishing conditions for accelerated development of intellectual business within the components of the national project “Tekhnopolis – creation of innovative development and high technologies infrastructure and support of subjects of software industry in Ukraine”. 

In view f this, it is suggested to establish special privileged order of calculation and payment of a single fee for mandatory state social insurance. In particular, this pertains to scientific and research enterprises; enterprises-software developers, involved in the national project “Tekhnopolis”; as well as subjects of software industry and their employees.

Generally upholding the idea of authors of the bill, the Committee, however, made several remarks.