The Ministry of Health of Ukraine by Order No. 2153 of October 4, 2021, registered in the Ministry of Justice on October 7, 2021 under No. 1306/36928, approved the list of organizations whose representatives are subject to mandatory vaccination against COVID-19.
According to the Order, for the period of quarantine established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the employees of following entities are subject to mandatory vaccination against COVID-19:
- central executive bodies and their territorial bodies;
- local state administrations and their structural subdivisions;
- institutions of higher, postgraduate, professional higher, professional (vocational), general secondary, including special, preschool, out-of-school education, institutions of specialized education and scientific institutions, regardless of the type and form of ownership.
The Order comes into force in one month from the date of its publication.
Employees of educational institutions and executive bodies who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 during this period will be suspended from work without pay.
It is important that educators and government officials who have absolute contraindications to vaccination, according to the List of medical contraindications and warnings to preventive vaccinations, approved by Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine No. 595 of September 16, 2011, will not be subject to mandatory vaccination.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Customs Tariff of Ukraine on unification of import duty rates on certain goods”, prepared by the Ministry of Finance together with the State Customs Service in agreement with the Ministry of Economy.
The bill proposes to unify (revise) import duty rates taking into account the related WTO rates for 92 goods, which are classified according to their chemical composition, degree of processing, technical characteristics, etc., and which cannot be accurately identified at the time of customs clearance without additional laboratory tests.
As a result of unification, import duty rates on some goods will increase slightly, on others –decrease. It is also proposed to increase the level of full import duty rates to the level of new unified preferential import duty rates.
Such changes to the Customs Tariff will simplify the classification procedures and speed up the customs clearance of homogeneous goods.
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine by Order No. 485 of August 28, 2021, amended the Procedure for registration of SSC payers and the Regulations on the register of insurers. They were brought in line with Laws No. 2464-VI of July 8, 2010 and No. 466-IX of January 16, 2020. This order entered into force on October 8, 2021.
Changes made to:
- Procedure for registration of single contribution payers for compulsory state social insurance,
- Regulations on the register of insurers.
Thus, these documents are brought in line with Laws No. 2464-VI and No. 466-IX.
In particular, the norms on the organization of registration of SSC payers in the controlling bodies have been clarified. The new item 1 of Chapter VI states that in accordance with this Procedure, the procedures for registration of SSC payers performed by the controlling bodies of the State Tax Service, are defined in subitems 41.1.1 of the Tax Code Ukraine No. 2755-VI of December 2, 2010 as amended (hereinafter – the Tax Code), and state tax inspections, which are structural units of controlling bodies and defined in item41.3 of the Tax Code. If State tax Inspections are not formed as a part of the controlling body, the procedures of registration of SSC payers carrying out by such Inspections in accordance with this Procedure must be performed by such controlling body.
Also, in the Regulations it is specified that the register of insurers includes the information necessary for the account of payers of the single contribution, their obligations and payment of the single contribution, in particular:
- tax number or series (if available) and passport number (for individuals who, due to their religious beliefs, refuse to accept the registration number of the taxpayer’s account card and have officially notified the relevant controlling body and have a mark in the passport);
- the main type of economic activity for which the occupational risk class is assigned (for the period up to January 1, 2016).
On the official web portal, the STSU publishes daily data from the register of insurers on registration/deregistration of the single contribution payer.
The Ministry of Health by Order “On approval of Amendments to certain regulations of the Ministry of Health” No. 2086 of September 28, 2021, amended a number of orders of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on the electronic health care system.
The document provides for the following changes.
1. The Procedure for maintaining the Register of medical records, referral records and prescriptions in the electronic health care system, approved by Order of the Ministry of Health No. 587 of February 28, 2020. The changes determine the range of persons who, in the absence of a doctor, have the right to correct an erroneous medical record of vaccination.
2. Order of the Ministry of Health “Some questions of formation of medical conclusions on temporary incapacity for work and carrying out their check” No. 1066 of June 1, 2021 is changed. It is offered to provide opportunities:
- use in the work regulations governing the issuance of paper sick leaves (in certain cases);
- in case of detection of technical inaccuracy or unreliable information in the medical opinion, to make changes to such medical opinion not later than 7 days from the date of its formation;
- cancel the erroneous medical opinion within 7 days from the date of its formation and form a new one with the start date 7 days before the date of formation.
3. Changes were made to the Procedure for issuance (formation) of sick leaves in the Electronic Register of sick leaves, approved by Order of the Ministry of Health No. 1234 of June 17, 2021, in particular:
- the order of sending the formed list of incapacity for work to the employer is specified;
- actions of the Pension Fund of Ukraine on cancellation of the list of incapacity for work and all changes in the Electronic register of the leaves of incapacity for work connected with this list are defined on the basis of the information on modification of the medical certificate on temporary incapacity as the legal consequence of modification in the conclusion is cancellation;
- the date from which the letter of incapacity for work is considered issued has been changed;
- the mechanism of formation of the electronic list of incapacity for work in the presence of several medical conclusions of different category on the person at the same time is defined.
4. On the basis of the data of medical conclusions which make one case of temporary incapacity, form sick leaves in the order of priority of creation of medical conclusions, each of which will be created as continuation of the first and make one insurance event.
5. The possibility of issuing paper letters of incapacity for work has been extended until February 1, 2022. However, cases of their issuance are significantly limited, namely:
- extension and closing of sick leaves, which were issued before October 1, 2021;
- if the period during which the attending physician had the opportunity to make changes to the medical opinion has expired;
- occurrence of technical problems (errors) in data transfer between the E-register of e-sick leaves and the Register of e-medical conclusions.
Order No. 2086 entered into force on October 1, 2021 due to official publication.
