The Cabinet of Ministers has set new deadlines for foreigners with expired residence permits to apply for exchange of the document.
According to the decree № 141 from February 5, it is established that foreigners and stateless persons, except for citizens of the Russian Federation, who have a residence permit, the term of application for the exchange of which came after February 24, 2022, should within 90 days from the date of entry into force of this decree to apply for the exchange of such a residence permit.
It is determined that this Decree shall enter into force three months after its publication.
In addition, the State Migration Service is instructed within three months from the date of entry into force of this decree to provide information and awareness-raising work aimed at informing foreigners and stateless persons about the procedure and terms of exchange of temporary residence certificates, the deadline for applying for the exchange of which came after February 24, 2022.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko has named prosthetics as one of the main tasks of Ukrainian social policy and announced the launch of grants for manufacturers of bionic prostheses.
“Prosthetics is one of the main tasks in social policy today. Our task is to ensure that everyone who needs it, both military and civilian, receives a high-quality prosthesis on time,” Svyrydenko wrote on Facebook on Sunday morning.
She reported that last week she held meetings with rehabilitation specialists, manufacturers, and center directors. “We see that many people are forced to wait for prosthetics or face poor-quality care. Therefore, we have tasked the Ministry of Social Policy and the Ministry of Health with developing a clear plan to resolve these issues,” the head of government wrote.
Svyrydenko also visited the Ukrainian production facility Esper Bionics and called it “an example of technology that is truly changing lives.”
“We want this market to develop. We want to see more Ukrainian manufacturers. Therefore, the government plans to launch grants for bionic prostheses,” she said.
The government has authorized foreign companies operating on the territory of Ukraine through separate subdivisions and representative offices to obtain the right to conduct construction of objects with medium (CC2) and significant (CC3) categories of consequences, the press service of the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories reported.
According to the message, the right to construction activity foreign companies will be able to obtain by free submission to the licensing authorities of the declaration of economic activity. In this case, there is no need to obtain a license for construction, the Ministry notes.
Such changes, introduced in Government Decree No. 314 of March 13, 2022, will be valid for the duration of martial law.
“The adoption of this act will improve the legal regulation of the activities of foreign companies in Ukraine, in particular, will allow representative offices of Polish companies in Ukraine to carry out work on the equipment of checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border,” – stated in the message of the Ministry of Regional Integration.
It is noted that works on the construction of checkpoints are planned within the framework of the implementation of the agreement between the Ukrainian and Polish governments on the provision of a loan on the terms of tied aid from September 9, 2015.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has banned all types of advertising of gambling business, follows from the government decree № 583.
Thus, amendments were made to paragraph 1 of the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 566 of May 17, 2024 “Some issues of counteraction to the negative consequences of the functioning of gambling on the Internet”.
“Subparagraph one after the words ‘order of restriction’ is supplemented with the words ‘of all forms’, and after the words ‘by restriction’ – with the words ‘namely a ban’, – stated in the resolution.
According to the document, the ban will be in force until the entry into force of the law on combating game addiction, which is now under consideration by the Verkhovna Rada.
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Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers is considering raising electricity tariffs in the wake of Russia’s new attacks on the energy sector, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said in an interview with Bloomberg.
“Depending on the situation in July and August, we will ask people to save as much as possible. The Russians will not be able to cause a repeat of the blackouts of 2022 and 2023. Even in the event of huge losses, we will have a basic generation that will cover 30% to 50% of our needs,” the minister said.
At the same time, Galushchenko did not rule out an increase in electricity tariffs for households and said that the government is exploring various ways to finance the repair of its energy assets.
“Today the situation is even more complicated than last year, as we have lost a lot of hydropower production and are forced to carry out scheduled repairs of nuclear power units,” he said.
The minister emphasized that Russia’s bombing of Ukrainian energy facilities in recent weeks was more extensive and better planned than the attacks of the previous two years, disabling generating capacity and limiting electricity supplies. As a result, restoring equipment and protecting the power grid have become key priorities for the government, although it is struggling to assess the extent of the damage.
“The destruction was extensive – in power generation and transmission. The situation is complicated. We still do not understand the extent of the damage, as many facilities are still in ruins and we cannot get to them,” explained Galushchenko.
In addition, in the spring of 2024, thermal and hydroelectric power plants became the main targets of Russian strikes. These attacks threaten not only electricity losses but also environmental disasters, Galushchenko said.
“Attacks on hydroelectric power plants are terrorist acts and war crimes, as they affect not only energy production but also the operation of dams on rivers,” the minister said.
Russia’s goal is to destroy Ukraine’s economy, Galushchenko said, adding that more damage to the power system would make it harder to overcome this summer’s consumption peaks.
“We will definitely communicate with people. Everyone wants to live comfortably, but we have to take into account the fact that there are restrictions now,” the minister concluded.
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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has obliged institutions of education, health care and other state contractors carrying out public procurement for budget funds to buy a number of products from the electronic catalog if their cost exceeds UAH 100 thousand.
According to the Ministry of Economy, Relevant amendments to the decree № 1178 on the peculiarities of public procurement for the period of martial law, the government adopted at a meeting on Friday.
“The Ministry of Economy has analyzed what set of products is most often purchased by educational institutions, medical institutions, and proposed amendments to the current regulations designed to simplify the procurement of such products for customers and suppliers. The electronic catalog procurement mechanism is the most understandable and accessible, so we suggest that customers and suppliers use the electronic catalog when making purchases. The decision will also contribute to the prevention of possible abuses and reduce corruption risks in procurement,” explained Deputy Minister of Economy Nadezhda Bigun.
The list of goods to be purchased through the catalog includes, in particular, meat – chicken, pork, beef, frozen fish, eggs, milk and dairy products including sour cream and kefir, cheese products, beet sugar, pasta, flour and various cereals, vegetables and fruits – cabbage, beets, carrots, apples, potatoes, etc.
The electronic catalog Prozorro Market is part of the reforms in the field of public procurement and allows customers to conduct competitive procurement of typical goods in just nine days, collecting competition twice as high as during the classic tender procedure. The administrator of the catalog in terms of consumer goods, including food products, has been determined by the centralized procurement organization GU “Professional Procurement”.
“Prozorro Market is not only a fast, convenient, safe, with minimal expenditure of resources of the customer procurement method, but also one where the savings are three times higher than in open tenders. The amount of food purchases in the electronic catalog already exceeds 2 billion UAH, and during 2023 every third purchase in the system was made using our tool”, – said the director of the State Institution “Professional Procurement” Eugene Yakubovsky.
It is assumed that if the purchase by electronic catalog by request for proposals did not take place, the customer can conduct a purchase at open tenders, without increasing the expected value of the purchase. Or procurement by request for proposals, taking into account the peculiarities of public procurement during martial law.
By the same decision, the government prohibited the purchase of goods, works and services from individuals and legal entities from the Russian Federation, Belarus and Iran, from companies whose ultimate beneficiaries or owners of more than 10% of shares are citizens of these countries. Exceptions are citizens legally residing in Ukraine; assets of citizens from these countries in the companies-suppliers are transferred to ARMA; goods from the Russian Federation and Belarus are necessary for repair and maintenance of goods purchased before October 19, 2022.
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