The Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on September 29 approved a bill banning exports of raw amber, which foresees focusing of legal production on existing mining sites, Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk has said.
“The main idea is to simultaneously comprehensively criminalize the illegal export of amber from Ukraine,” Honcharuk said at a press briefing on Monday.
The bill provides for a ban on the export of unprocessed amber (raw), criminalizes the illegal export of amber, and simplifies the procedure for obtaining official documents for the development of existing prospecting mining sites for legal business.
The bill will be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada in the near future, Honcharuk said.
In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a bill on the legalization of gambling and will soon introduce it to the Rada.
“We want the slot machines to disappear from the streets… Yesterday we voted in favor of it. And in the near future it will be submitted to parliament,” Honcharuk said.
