The Verkhovna Rada has adopted as a basis and as a whole bill No. 1082 on the joint transit regime and the introduction of a national electronic transit system, which provides for a mechanism for the exchange of customs information with 35 countries.
According to a correspondent of the Interfax-Ukraine agency, 333 MPs supported draft law No. 1082 at a plenary meeting on September 12 with the quorum being 226 votes.
“This system provides that our customs will see the entire history of movement of goods that is in those countries and transfer its data to them. The bill provides for the functioning of this system in a test mode for about a year. Then it will be tested by our European partners, and after that we will join an agreement on joint transit,” Danylo Hetmantsev, the head of the parliamentary committee on finance, taxation and customs policy, has said.
Head of the State Customs Service Maksym Nefyodov, in turn, said that “this is a simple beautiful story of customs visa-free travel that will allow Ukrainian players to leave Ukraine and travel to Portugal with one truck with one document, with one guarantee.”
In his opinion, it will make Ukrainian goods cheaper for Ukrainian consumers.
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has voted in favor of bill No. 7203 amending Article 80 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which envisages lifting parliamentary immunity from 2020. An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that 373 MPs backed the decision at a plenary session of parliament on Tuesday. It requires at least 300 for the final approval of the constitutional changes, according to the law.
The Verkhovna Rada has approved the schedule of the second session of the 9th convocation. Some 278 deputies voted for corresponding draft resolution (No. 1087) at a plenary meeting.
“This project proposes to start the second session of the IX convocation on September 3 and finish its work on January 24, 2020,” said Serhiy Kalchenko, a representative of the parliament’s committee on regulatory issues, introducing the draft resolution.
According to him, the schedule provides for 10 plenary weeks, six weeks of work in committees, commissions, parliamentary factions, and five weeks for working with voters, as well as eight hours of questions for the government.
According to the constitution, the next session of the Verkhovna Rada opens on the first Tuesday of September.
The candidate for the post of chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) of the ninth convocation from the Servant of the People faction, Dmytro Razumkov, has stated one of the tasks would be to achieve economic growth in Ukraine at the level of 5-7% next year. “Launching the mechanism of a rapid economic growth. Our goal is the economic growth of 5% to 7% as early as next year. In addition, this should be growth not only on paper, in statistics, but also consistent with what people feel every day in their life,” Razumkov said at a plenary meeting before voting for his appointment as chairman of parliament.
He also announced the need for deregulation, legalizing capital.
He also announced the task of optimizing the functionality of state bodies, eliminating duplication of their functions.
At the same time, he emphasized that one of the tasks would be to create conditions for fair and independent justice.
Parliamentarian from the Servant of the People Party Dmytro Razumkov has been elected chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation.
Some 382 deputies voted for him at a plenary meeting of the first session of the newly elected parliament on Thursday, an Interfax-Ukraine agency correspondent reported.
The European Solidarity faction voted against – 26 deputies.
The group for the preparation of the first meeting of the newly elected Verkhovna Rada has voted on the agenda of the first session of the parliament for the period of consideration of organizational issues of the first session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the ninth convocation. The first working meeting of the parliament will begin with the formation of a temporary presidium of the first session of the Rada. Then, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman will announce the resignation of powers by the Cabinet of Ministers in front of the new Verkhovna Rada.
After that, parliamentary factions and groups will be formed. Then the issue of a coalition of deputy factions (a deputy faction that has coalition rights) will be resolved.
The accounting commission of the parliament, its chairman, first deputy and deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada will be elected.
Next, an extraordinary message from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the internal and external situation in Ukraine will be heard.
MPs also intend to dismiss the head of the Security Service of Ukraine and appoint a new head of the agency, to resolve the issue of giving consent to the dismissal from office by the president of the prosecutor general of Ukraine and the appointment of a new prosecutor general.
