Draft Law No. 11115 has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration, which proposes to regulate the activities of information sharing platforms, including the Telegram messenger.
The corresponding card was published on the parliament’s website.
The document was authored by MPs from the European Solidarity party – Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Rostyslav Pavlenko, Mykhailo Bondar, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Iryna Friz, Sofia Fedyna, from the Servant of the People party – Mykyta Poturaiev, Liudmyla Marchenko, from the Voice party – Yaroslav Yurchyshyn and Natalia Pipa, and from the For the Future party – Iryna Konstankevych.
The explanatory note to the draft law states that the regulation proposed by the current law “On Media” remains incomplete, which manifested itself in the inability of the state to effectively respond to a number of problems in the information sphere.
“In the context of a full-scale aggression against Ukraine, these problems pose obvious threats to national security. This draft law is intended to provide government agencies with appropriate tools,” the document states.
The draft law sets requirements for providers of information sharing platforms to disclose their ownership structure and sources of funding upon request. At the same time, the conditions do not allow media entities owned or financed by residents of the aggressor state to operate in Ukraine.
The draft law also proposes to establish a legal presumption that the inability to carry out an inspection due to the lack of communication with the provider (both due to the lack of representation and the failure to provide the requested documents and information) is a ground for recognizing the ownership structure of such a provider as non-transparent.
Public authorities, local governments, their officials, and representatives of financial services are not allowed to use information sharing platforms with non-transparent ownership structure of their providers. It is also not allowed to install these platforms and related services on devices used for official purposes, in accordance with the practice of some EU countries and Switzerland.
The draft law has been sent to the relevant committee for consideration.
The Ministry of Social Policy says that since the introduction of martial law, more than two million people have registered as internally displaced persons.
“I know that now, when talking about internally displaced persons, they often talk about people who have moved after martial law. But the war has been going on for eight years, and the number of those who have been forced to leave their homes since 2014 and seek asylum in other regions of the country is higher. To date, the Unified Information Database on Internally Displaced Persons has information on 3.4 million people,” the ministry’s press service quotes the Minister of Social Policy.
It is noted that more than two million of them are people who were forced to move after the introduction of martial law.
According to the report, most people after the large-scale military invasion of Russia moved to Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions.
Most internally displaced persons are registered in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions.
The Ministry of Social Policy also reports that more than 225,000 people have registered as internally displaced persons through Diia.
In March this year, Ukrainians registered 8.3 thousand used cars imported from abroad during the war, Ukravtoprom reported.
“This is much less than a year earlier (-76%), but this result was 15 times higher than the March market for new passenger cars,” the association’s website said on Thursday.
As reported, registrations of new passenger cars in March 2022 fell by 16.5 times compared to the “covid”, but peaceful March of last year – up to 546 units.
According to the Association, the most popular used car in March this year was Volkswagen Golf with 484 registrations, Renault Megane is second with 472 units, Volkswagen Passat is in third place with 422 customs cleared and registered cars.
Skoda Octavia continues the list (339 units), and Ford Focus closes the top five with a score of 217 units.
Taking into account March registrations, almost 69,000 used cars imported from other countries received Ukrainian license plates in January-March, which is six times more than new passenger cars over the same period.
As reported, in the first quarter of last year, 87.7 thousand units were registered in Ukraine. used foreign cars imported from abroad, which exceeded the registration of new cars by four times.
On March 24, 2022, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, in order to stimulate important imports for the country, among a number of goods for the period of martial law, exempted the import of vehicles by citizens from taxation (cars, motorcycles, trucks and buses).
The Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture has included the Winter Sport (Vinnytsia) and Chortkiv-West (Chortkiv, Ternopol region) industrial parks in the register of industrial parks. Including in the register of these parks is stipulated in ministry orders No. 151 of October 2 and No. 152 of October 3. Winter Sport was established on a land plot of 25 hectares, its operational life is 50 years. The priority activities in the park will be production of sports equipment for winter sports, equipment for scuba diving, as well as other components, placement of warehouse and administrative premises, as well as information technology enterprises.
According to preliminary calculations, up to 1,450 new jobs can be created in the park.
According to the state register, HEAD Vinnytsia LLC with a charter capital of UAH 10,000 was registered in October 2018. Some 100% of its shares belong to HEAD Ukraine, and the ultimate beneficiaries are three non-resident individuals.
Chortkiv-West was created on a land plot of 87.684 ha, the declared term of its operation is 30 years.
Government’s bill No. 2178 about the turnover of farmland has been submitted to Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada and sent to the profile committee.
According to information on the parliament’s website, the bill was registered on September 25. It provides for the abolition of the ban on sale of farmland of all forms of ownership from October 1, 2020.
According to the document, citizens and legal entities of Ukraine, territorial communities, and the state can buy farmland.
At the same time, the bill proposes to deprive individuals and legal entities, foreign states that are subject to the sanctions law, of the right to purchase land.
“Foreigners and stateless persons may obtain ownership rights to farmland by succession prescribed in the law, but are required to sell them within one year from the date of obtaining ownership rights,” the government said in the document.
The bill sets the minimum starting price for the sale of land plots in public and communal property at land tenders at a level not lower than the standard monetary value, ensures the right of citizens to buy back land for farming, owned by them on a permanent use right basis and inherited tenure rights in installments paid during up to five years at a price equal to the standard monetary value of such land plots.
The document provides the tenant’s pre-emptive right to purchase a land plot, provides for the obligation of the state registrar to place information on the price (value) of property rights, including use rights, in the register of ownership rights.
The total area of farmland owned by a citizen or a legal entity of Ukraine, taking into account affiliated persons: within one region should not exceed 15% of farmland of such an area and 0.5% of farmland of Ukraine, according to the bill.
In addition, in order to obtain data on the total area of farmland owned by one person and affiliated persons, the software of the State Land Cadastre must provide information interaction with the public register of ownership rights to real estate and the unified public register of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and public organizations.
Through January-June 2019, almost 2,335 accidents happening at the workplace were registered, of which 189 people received fatal injuries. The number of accidents happened through this period fell by 2.1% compared to the same period a year ago, when a number of fatally injured persons grew by 9.2%.
The biggest number of insurance accidents happened at the coal enterprises and retail store networks.
The most number of the employees were injured in Dnipropetrovsk region (15.5%), Kyiv (11.1%) and Donetsk region (10.7%).
The Social Insurance Fund makes insurance payments to victims of accidents at work or in the event of an occupational disease, and also provides medical and social services. In particular, the fund finances the treatment of all the direct consequences of an insured event until recovery, operational rehabilitation on the basis of sanatoriums, conducting research, performing surgeries, endoprosthetics, prosthetics, and providing medicines and medical products.
