The Committee on Environmental Policy, Use of Natural Resources and Chornobyl Aftermath Mitigation does not uphold the draft law on amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Infringements (re broadening of powers of internal affairs bodies in the sphere of environmental protection)

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
04 November 2013, 17:25

During the meeting of the Committee, it was noted that the bill (Reg. No. 3362) suggests supplement paragraph one of chapter one of article 255 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Infringements that will give the right to internal affairs bodies to draw up protocols on administrative infringements in case of detecting infringements in the sphere of environmental protection. 

The people’s deputies stressed that the bill is aimed at improving environmental protection, still attention was paid to some of its problematic provisions.

Other remarks were voiced to this draft law.