The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has clarified the criteria for determining persons who have the right to apply for grants to start or develop their own business.
The relevant changes were developed by the Ministry of Economy on the initiative of the Ministry of Reintegration. From now on, business entities from the territories of possible hostilities will also be able to apply for grants.
Restrictions on submitting an application are provided only for entities that are located or conduct business activities in temporarily occupied territories or territories of active hostilities, for which the date of the end of occupation or hostilities has not been determined in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Reintegration.
The adopted changes regard the following state programs:
- provision of micro-grants to start or develop one's own business;
- provision of grants to start or develop horticulture, berry growing and viticulture;
- provision of grants to start or develop greenhouse farming.
With changes, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the procedure for providing grants to combatants, persons with disabilities as a result of the war, and their family members.
Depending on the number of employees, veterans will be able to receive grant funds in the amount of 250,000 to 1 million UAH. This will contribute to the creation of new jobs both among internally displaced persons and directly among veterans.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has simplified the procedure for importing a number of dual-use goods necessary to repel an aggressor or as components for Ukrainian arms manufacturers.
The Government adopted corresponding changes with amendments to the resolution ‘On the list of goods, the international transfers (imports) of which are not covered by the Law of Ukraine ‘On state control over international transfers of goods of military purpose and dual use’ during the period of martial law on the territory of Ukraine’ at the meeting on 30 March 2023.
This decision significantly increases the opportunities for import and expands the range of importers of dual-purpose goods necessary to ensure the state’s defense capability, in particular, the list of dual-use goods that can be imported into Ukraine without export control procedures has been significantly expanded. Such goods include communication systems, telemetry equipment, information protection systems, as well as relevant software and technologies.
The solution should significantly improve the provision of both directly our defenders at the front, and manufacturers for the production of modern powerful weapons.
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, by Order No. 71 of February 8, 2023, made changes to the Instruction on the Procedure for Accrual and Payment of Unified Social Contribution, approved by Order No. 449 of the Ministry of Finance of April 20, 2015.
The document brings the provisions of the Instruction into compliance with the legislation, namely the following laws of Ukraine:
- ‘On Social and Legal Protection of People Deprived of Personal Liberty as a Result of Armed Aggression Against Ukraine, and Members of their Families’ (hereinafter – Law No. 2010);
- ‘On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding the Regulation of Labor Relations with Non-Fixed Working Hours’, which amended the Law of Ukraine ‘On Collection and Accounting of a Single Contribution to Mandatory State Social Insurance (hereinafter – Law No. 2464);
- ‘On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On Mandatory State Social Insurance’ and the Law of Ukraine ‘On Mandatory State Pension Insurance’, which sets forth the new version of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Mandatory State Social Insurance’ (hereinafter – Law No. 1105).
Order No. 71 amended the Instruction and its annexes 1, 4 and 5.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has simplified the conditions for submitting documents for obtaining the status of registered unemployed. At a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, a new Procedure for registration, re-registration of registered unemployed and keeping records of jobseekers was approved. In particular, the procedure for obtaining the status of registered unemployed online was clarified. The relevant decision was adopted on March 30, 2023.
The new Procedure provides for the following changes:
- conditions for granting the status of registered unemployed to members of voluntary formations of the territorial community and their registration during martial law were approved;
- communication of an unemployed person with a career counselor (specialized career counselor) regarding job search is equivalent to a personal visit to an employment center;
- new criteria for suitable work have been approved, including during martial law;
- grounds for termination of registration of the unemployed regarding stay abroad have been added.
We would like to remind you that earlier the Government approved a new Procedure for professional training, retraining and advanced training of the registered unemployed, which should stimulate the provision of the unemployed not only with new skills, but also with a new place of residence.
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, by Order No. 137 of March 16, 2023, approved the criteria by which the Ministry determines enterprises, institutions and organizations that are important for the national economy.
Thus, enterprises, institutions, organizations will be defined as having importance for the branches of the national economy, if they meet at least one of the following criteria:
- implementation of state policy in accordance with the laws, the formation of which is responsible for the Ministry of Finance;
- carrying out activities in the field of accounting and auditing, where the formation and implementation of state policy is ensured by the Ministry of Finance;
- performance of works and provision of services for the Ministry of Finance on the basis of contracts (agreements, memoranda, contracts) concluded for a period of at least six months;
- provision of services that meet the needs of enterprises, institutions, organizations that are under the control of the Ministry of Finance or in respect of which the Ministry of Finance performs functions of managing corporate rights belonging to the state in their authorized capital, or exercises control over their activities, and the absence of such services will lead to disruption of the stable functioning of such enterprises, institutions, organizations;
- staying in the sphere of management of the Ministry of Finance or the Ministry of Finance performs functions of management of corporate rights belonging to the state in their authorized capital, or exercises control over their activities.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has prepared changes to the procedure for contesting the state registration of real estate. The bill ‘On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Improving the Appeal Procedure in the Fields of State Registration of Property Rights to Real Property and Their Encumbrances, Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs, and Public Organizations’ was approved.
The provisions of the bill are intended to provide in the norms of the Civil Code of Ukraine the general principles of state registration of property rights to immovable property and their encumbrances, to clarify the basic principles of the emergence of ownership rights to newly created property and objects of unfinished construction.
The bill also proposes amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On State Registration of Property Rights to Real Property and Their Encumbrances’ to provide that:
- failure to establish the identity of the applicant entails failure to accept the application for registration, provision of information from the State Register of Property Rights to Real Property;
- the applicant’s failure to submit a document confirming the payment of administrative fees, or the payment of the appropriate fee in full, will result in the suspension of consideration of the application for state registration of rights;
- the decision of the state registrar, adopted in violation of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Sanctions’, can be appealed to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine by any person no later than three years from the date of its adoption, regardless of when they learned or could have learned about such a decision.
The bill proposes to provide in the Law of Ukraine ‘On State Registration of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations’, that in the event of a complaint against a decision, action or omission in the field of state registration or confirmation of the fact of the use of the state registrar’s of access identifiers to the State Register of Rights by other persons, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, its territorial bodies must make a decision on, in particular, the recognition of illegal registration, actions of the state registrar, which resulted in the withdrawal of information from the Unified State Register, actions related to automatic state registration, cancellation of the decision of the territorial body of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
Similar changes are proposed to be made in the Law of Ukraine ‘On State Registration of Property Rights to Real Property and Their Encumbrances’.
