The Verkhovna Rada has eliminated inconsistencies in the text of the adopted law on de-oligarchization (bill No. 5599).
Thus, the majority of deputies at the plenary session on Wednesday supported the elimination of inconsistencies in Articles 5, 7 and Article 9 of the law.
According to the proposals published in the comparative table on the website of the parliament and for which the deputies voted, the body that makes the decision on recognizing a person as an oligarch is the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC). At the same time, the NSDC is also authorized to exclude a person from the relevant register.
In addition, the Rada supported the proposal of first Deputy Speaker Oleksandr Korniyenko that the bill should be signed by chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk.
As reported, on September 23 the parliament adopted at the second reading the presidential bill on prevention of threats to national security associated with the excessive influence of persons who have significant economic or political weight in public life (oligarchs) (No. 5599).
Later, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence appealed to the speaker with a request to re-vote the law on oligarchs No. 5599, adopted on September 23, in connection with a legal conflict that arose. As head of the Holos faction, Yaroslav Zhelezniak, explained, deputies simultaneously took into account three amendments (396, 398, 406), which contradict one another.
According to the 398th amendment, the decision on recognizing a person with significant economic or political weight in public life is made by the head of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) after the appeal of the Commission on Counteracting the Excessive Influence of Persons with significant economic or political weight in public life.
At the same time, in the 406th amendment, the decision on recognizing a person as an oligarch is made by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on the basis of a submission from the Cabinet of Ministers, a member of the NSDC, the National Bank, the Security Service or the Antimonopoly Committee.
The electronic minutes state that amendments 396 and 398 were not separately voted on for their support.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk, presiding over the plenary session on Thursday, when voting on amendment 406, did not name amendments 396 and 398 as automatically rejected.
Bill No. 5599 was considered at the second reading according to a special procedure and only 13 amendments were made, approved by the relevant committee (on national security issues). All other amendments were considered automatically rejected, which was reported by Stefanchuk every time a vote was taken.
Opponents of vaccination for COVID-19 are blocking traffic on Hrushevskoho Street and a number of other main streets in Kyiv adjacent to the area where the government is located on Wednesday.
Several hundred people are taking part in the protest, and none are wearing masks, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported from the site. The protesters demand lifting the quarantine restrictions and resuming regular classes in school, among other things, and they oppose the vaccine mandate.
The protesters began gathering near the Ukrainian parliament at 8:00 a.m., and more protesters are coming in.
Once traffic has been blocked, the protesters plan to hold a meeting near the building of the Verkhovna Rada.
Police are trying to persuade the protesters to unblock the streets for public transportation at the least.
The new Ukrainian airline Air Ocean Airlines, on Saturday, October 30, on An-148 aircraft operated its first flight on the route Kyiv-Mykolaiv, according to the Facebook page of the state-owned enterprise Antonov.
Antonov notes that Air Ocean Airlines was founded in September 2020, its main activity is regular and charter flights in Ukraine and abroad on An-148 and An-158 aircraft.
“We are planning to start flights with duration of 2-2.5 hours, which, according to our estimates, will be the most economically profitable,” Viacheslav Heriha, executive director of the airline, is quoted as saying.
Today, the Air Ocean Airlines fleet consists of two An-148 aircraft. According to the state-owned enterprise, the supply of one more aircraft is planned by the end of this year. During the first and second quarters of 2022, three more aircraft will be supplied. In total, the company plans to operate up to ten aircraft of this type. They are owned by Cyprus Aircraft Leasing 2 (CAL) LTD and transferred to the airline in accordance with lease agreements.
Air Ocean Airlines has already launched its website but it is currently undergoing technical work.
The Verkhovna Rada intends to simplify the procedure for granting citizenship to foreigners who protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The adoption of the relevant bill No. 5630 at the first reading was supported by 302 MPs at an extraordinary plenary session on Tuesday.
The bill proposes to simplify the procedure for obtaining Ukrainian citizenship by citizens of a state recognized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as an aggressor or occupier who have been persecuted for political reasons, by foreigners and stateless persons who are doing military service under contract in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and are also directly involved in measures to ensure national security and defense of Ukraine, the containment of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
In addition, the final and transitional provisions of the draft law provide for the possibility of submitting a declaration of renunciation of foreign citizenship by persons who received Ukrainian citizenship before the entry into force of this draft law.
Ukraine from Monday, November 1, joined the Eurocontrol joint route charge system, which became the final stage of the incorporation of European practices in the field of air navigation and made it possible to introduce a European system of interaction in the air navigation sector in Ukraine, the press service of the Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise (UkSATSE) has said.
“Ukrainian air navigation is now fully integrated into the pan-European system. The process that lasted 17 years has finally come to an end. It covered the large-scale adaptation of Ukrainian air navigation to modern world standards and technical procedures. This is a step forward to improve interaction between the state and business,” Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said.
According to him, the new system for setting rates and payments for air navigation services is transparent, understandable and convenient for airlines to use. At the same time, it becomes impossible to accumulate debts of air carriers for using UkSATSE services.
UkSATSE notes that now the collection of fees for air navigation services on the route in the airspace of Ukraine from Ukrainian and foreign airlines will be carried out through the Central Route Charges Office of Eurocontrol (CRCO).
“Technical integration gives concrete advantages to each participant of the aviation market. For airlines it is an open and standardized process of setting rates, their annual updating and convenient payment of bills. For UkSATSE it is a full coverage of its own expenses at the expense of rates and a guarantee of their full payment by airlines. For Ukraine – it is a certificate of the inflexibility of the European integration course in foreign policy,” Head of UkSATSE Andriy Yarmak said.
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