The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted as a basis the government's draft law on expanding the list of grounds for disclosure of bank secrecy.
It is about making changes to the legislative acts of Ukraine regarding certain issues of disclosure of bank secrecy and measures to establish guardianship over the property of a natural person who is recognized as missing or a person who has disappeared under special circumstances, No. 9235 .
The specified draft law was developed by the Ministry of Reintegration. The purpose of the draft law is to provide legislative regulation for the disclosure by banks of information that constitutes bank secrecy at the request of notaries to establish guardianship over the property of an unaccountably absent person or a person who has disappeared under special circumstances.
Notaries will be able to receive data on accounts, funds, movable property and more. This will contribute to the protection of the rights of family members of such persons.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted draft law No. 11251, which provides for subsidies for renting premises for bookstores, and also introduces the issuance of book certificates.
From 2024, 18-year-old Ukrainians will receive book certificates in the amount of UAH 908, and with the end of martial law, also one of the parents upon the birth of a child.
It will be possible to use this right within one year and it will be even easier to do it using Diia app.
The draft law provides for a clear procedure for providing subsidies for renting premises for bookstores.
President of Ukraine has signed Law of Ukraine No. 3680-IX "On Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding Labor Regulation of Domestic Workers".
With this document, the Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine is supplemented with a new chapter XI-A "Labor of domestic workers", which defines:
1) the concept of domestic work (this is work performed for the household under an employment contract) and domestic worker (this is an individual who performs domestic work within the framework of employment relations with the employer);
2) the legal status of domestic workers and the specifics of its regulation, in particular the mandatory terms of employment contracts with domestic workers;
3) the additional rights, obligations, guarantees and working conditions of domestic workers;
4) the working time and rest time of domestic workers;
5) the specifics of terminating an employment contract with a domestic worker;
6) the peculiarities of monitoring compliance with the legislation on the work of domestic workers.
The law makes appropriate changes to other articles of the Code in order to bring them into line with the new Chapter XI-A (regarding overtime work and work on weekends, the procedure for consideration of labor disputes, etc.).
In addition, taking into account the specifics of the relationship between a domestic worker and an employer, the law provides for voluntary training of domestic workers in the system of mandatory state social insurance.
It is worth noting that the new law in the social sphere implements into Ukrainian legislation the provisions of International Labor Organization Convention No. 189 on domestic workers, which is very important in the process of Ukraine's integration into the European Union, as well as in the process of updating the labor legislation of Ukraine in general.
This Law enters into force three months after its publication. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine must bring its normative legal acts into compliance with this Law within three months from the date of publication of this Law.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the draft law No. 1150, which provides for the extension of the term of registration of ownership rights to land plots.
The draft law provides for the extension until January 1, 2028 of the registration period for unclaimed shares, the distribution between owners of shares and their heirs of lands remaining in collective ownership after the distribution of land plots.
The draft law also extends until 2026 the pilot project of entering information into the State Land Cadastre by certified land surveyors and restores the obligation to improve their qualifications.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted a draft law on amendments to Art. 8 of the Law of Ukraine "On Critical Infrastructure" (regarding the settlement of disputes, the subject of which is the state's ownership of critical infrastructure objects that are in state ownership) (reg. No. 8316).
The adopted Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Ensuring the Operation of Critical Infrastructure Objects During Martial Law" amended the Economic Procedure Code, the Civil Procedure Code, the Code of Administrative Procedure, the Code of Ukraine on Bankruptcy Procedures, the Law of Ukraine "On Legal Regime of Property in the Armed Forces of Ukraine", the Law of Ukraine "On Management of State-Owned Objects", the Law of Ukraine "On Transfer, Forced Alienation or Seizure of Property under the Conditions of the Legal Regime of Martial Law or State of Emergency", the Law of Ukraine "On State Registration of Legal Individuals, Natural Persons - Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations", the Law of Ukraine "On Executive Proceedings", the Law of Ukraine "On Critical Infrastructure".
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the Law of Ukraine on compulsory civil liability insurance of owners of land vehicles (registration No. 8300)
In general, the Law ensures a fairer and more effective system of compulsory civil liability insurance (CCLI) for car owners. In addition, the law brings the CCLI system closer to European standards.
The main clauses of the Law provide for:
- increase of insurance sums. The law provides for a gradual increase of insurance sums to a level that meets European standards. In particular, the maximum amount of payment for damage to life and health should be increased to UAH 32 million, and for property damage to UAH 16 million;
- introduction of direct settlement of all cases of road accidents where only the vehicle is damaged, which will allow the insured to apply for insurance payment directly to the insurer, bypassing the insurer of the culprit of the road accident;
- guarantee payments to injured persons for bankrupt insurers before the Law comes into force (now it is years, but it is proposed to be up to 60 days). This should contribute to more effective protection of insurer rights;
- expansion of the application of the European protocol - filing of an application for insurance compensation in the event of a road accident without the involvement of the police.
The law also brings the norms of Ukrainian legislation into line with the current provisions of Directive 2009/103/EU, in particular, the step-by-step increase in the amount for damage caused to the life and health of injured persons to UAH 1 million per victim and UAH 20 million per insured event regardless of the number of injured persons, and for damage caused to the property of injured persons - up to UAH 2 million per insured event regardless of the number of injured persons.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted a decision on the implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine of April 20, 2024 "Regarding Countering the Negative Consequences of Gambling on the Internet", enacted by Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 234 of April 20, 2024, until it enters into force The Law of Ukraine on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine for the purpose of combating gaming addiction (ludomania) and improving the state regulation of activities related to the organization and conduct of gambling games and lotteries, but no later than the end of the legal regime of martial law, to establish the procedure for limiting the advertising of gambling games, which is carried out by limiting the distribution of advertising of gambling games, advertising of trademarks, other objects of intellectual property rights, under which gambling activities are carried out, as well as other designations under which gambling is conducted, in particular with the use of electronic communications, the symbols of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other military formations formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, as well as the distribution of relevant contextual material.
It was established that:
- registration of several client accounts for one player by gambling organizers on the Internet is prohibited;
- during gambling on the Internet, the organizers of games are obliged to introduce mandatory breaks in the game for each player;
- after registering the player in the online system of the gambling organizer or before accepting the bet, receive information from the player regarding: the limit of funds that the player wishes to spend on gambling within a certain time (day, week, month), and set the chosen limit for him with the possibility of changes no more than once a month;
- maximum time of the player's continuous participation in the game during the day and the maximum time of participation in the gambling during the week and set the selected time of participation in the game.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has updated the Procedure for the use of funds provided in the state budget for compensation of expenses for humanitarian demining of agricultural lands.
Amendments to the decree provide for compensation both for farmers whose land has already been demined by certified mine action operators in the period from February 24, 2022 to April 15, 2024, and for farmers who are only planning to start demining their own agricultural plots or on which they work as tenants. UAH 3 billion has been allocated for these needs in the budget for 2024. The state will compensate 80% of the cost of demining.
According to the resolution, those agricultural producers whose land is located in the de-occupied territory outside the combat zone have the right to compensation for demining agricultural land. The fact of contamination of such areas with explosive objects must be confirmed by the Mine Action Center based on the results of a non-technical survey conducted by a certified mine action operator.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has expanded the list of open data in the field of environmental protection.
This decision brings the list of environmental data sets into compliance with the Laws "On Waste Management", "On Atmospheric Air Protection", "On Licensing Types of Economic Activities", "On Pesticides and Agrochemicals". After all, with the launch of European integration changes in the environmental sphere, a large array of new information is already appearing, and new registers will also be created. Access to such information should be open to Ukrainians.
The following has been added to the datasets to be created and published:
- Register of business entities that are required to submit a waste declaration;
- Register of permits for waste treatment operations;
- Register of producers of products for which the extended responsibility of the producer has been established;
- Register of extended producer responsibility organizations;
- Register of business entities in the field of waste processing;
- Register of by-products (Register of economic entities, in the production process of which this substance or object is defined as a by-product);
- Register of termination of waste status (Register of business entities that declare termination of waste status);
- Register of business entities for the implementation of waste collection and storage operations;
- Register of business entities for waste transportation operations;
- Circular and low-carbon economy datasets;
- Information on permits for the use of a particularly dangerous chemical substance that is withdrawn from the market.
