The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Procedure for the use of funds provided for in the state budget to ensure state support for the implementation of investment projects with significant investments (in the amount of more than EUR 12 million).
This year, UAH 3 billion of budget has been allocated to this program. The total amount of support is up to 30% of the investment amount. Investors who plan to implement a project in Ukraine with a cost of EUR 12 million and a duration of up to 5 years in the fields of processing industry, extraction of minerals for further processing or beneficiation, transport, logistics, education, scientific activity, health care, waste management, art, culture, tourism, sports, electronic communications will be able to receive state support.
At the same time, the Government will monitor the investors' fulfillment of the terms of the contract. If the Ministry of Economy, on the basis of information from the register of investment projects with significant investments, establishes the fact that the volume of significant investments is less than EUR 12 million, the investor must return the entire amount of compensation received to a special registration account of the Ministry of Economy within a month.
In the event that the state financial control bodies establish the fact that the investor illegally received compensation or partial compensation, the investor shall also return the entire amount of compensation received within a month.
We will remind that during the implementation of investment projects with significant investments, investors can receive several types of support from the state, which make up to 30% of the total amount of such an investment project. In particular:
- preferential right to use land plots of state or communal property;
- compensation for construction costs of engineering and transport infrastructure facilities and costs for connection to engineering and transport networks;
- tax benefits;
- duty-free import of necessary equipment;
- exemption from compensation for losses of forestry production.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted as a basis the project of the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding the Protection of the Interests of Owners of Land Shares (Shares), as well as the Application of Administrative Procedures in the Field of Land Relations" (reg. No. 11150 of April 4, 2024).
The bill includes the following provisions:
- extension (from 2025 to 2028) of the registration period for unclaimed land plots, distribution of land plots between owners of shares and their heirs of lands remaining in collective ownership after the distribution of land plots.
- restoration of the obligation to upgrade the qualifications of certified land surveyors.
- continuation until 2026 of the pilot project on entering information into the State Land Cadastre by certified land surveyors.
- elimination of inconsistencies between the laws "On Land Management" and "On Land Appraisal".
- bringing the titles of the chapters of the Land Code of Ukraine into compliance with the subjects of their legal regulation.
In addition, the project proposes to foresee the peculiarities of the administrative procedure in the field of land relations.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the Law of Ukraine "On Appeals", prepared with the aim of improving the legislation on appeals and bringing it into line with the Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure" (reg. No. 11082 ).
The law proposes to determine the procedure for exercising the right of everyone to apply to the authorities and receive an answer within the prescribed period, guaranteed by Article 40 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
The document provides for the procedures for submission and consideration of appeals, the rights and obligations of the participants in the relevant legal relationship.
Subjects of consideration of appeals are obliged to publish on their own official website information about the defined sphere of authority, the procedure for submission and consideration of appeals; consider appeals comprehensively and in a timely manner; to inform the subject of the appeal in writing or in the cases provided for by this Law verbally of the results of consideration of the appeal; to inform the subject of the appeal in the event of a decision to leave the appeal without consideration within the time limits specified by this Law; to inform the subject of the appeal about the procedure for appealing the failure to respond to the appeal or the decision to leave the appeal without consideration.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the draft law No. 10017 , which gives the Pension Fund powers in the field of mandatory state social insurance in connection with temporary disability instead of the liquidated Social Insurance Fund, while simultaneously solving problems related to the social rights of people with disabilities and internally displaced persons.
The need for its adoption is due to the fact that the Social Insurance Fund of Ukraine and the management of its executive directorate ceased to operate, and the functions in the field of mandatory state social insurance in connection with the temporary loss of working capacity and mandatory state social insurance from an accident at work and of occupational disease that caused the loss of working capacity, from January 1, 2023, the Pension Fund of Ukraine and its territorial bodies perform.
The bill also makes changes to a number of other laws. In particular, this draft law proposes:
- to exclude norms and determine mandatory insurance for officials of the state protection service of the nature reserve fund;
- to clarify the conditions and procedure for assigning insurance payments to persons who have become victims of an accident at work or an occupational disease;
- to establish the procedure for appointment and payment of benefits in connection with temporary incapacity for work, pregnancy and childbirth for persons both at the main place of work and part-time;
- to determine that social and medical services for victims will be provided in accordance with the assessment of their needs in accordance with relevant laws, and their organization and cost compensation will be determined by the government.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the Law of Ukraine on Amendments to the Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine on Succession in Labor Relations (basic draft law No. 8244 of November 29, 2022).
The law is aimed at bringing the national labor legislation into compliance with the provisions of Council Directive No. 2001/23/EC of March 12, 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the member states relating to the protection of the rights of employees in the event of the transfer of enterprises, business structures or parts of enterprises or business structures, regarding the establishment of the employer's obligation to notify employees of a change in the owner of the enterprise.
The document provides that:
- in the case of the transfer of the business entity, the employment relationship of the employees continues with the acquirer. Existing rights and obligations under employment contracts between employees and the alienator are transferred to the acquirer;
- in the event of the transfer of the business entity, the status and functions of the elected body of the primary trade union organization are preserved on the same terms and are subject to the same conditions that existed before the transfer of rights and obligations from the alienator to the acquirer;
- the alienator and the acquirer are obliged not later than 10 working days before the transfer of the business entity to inform the elected body of the primary trade union organization in writing or using technical means of electronic communication about:
- the date or estimated date of transfer of the business entity;
- the reasons for the transfer of the business entity;
- legal, economic and social consequences of the transfer of the business entity for employees;
- any measures provided for employees.
- The employee must be notified of changes in essential working conditions caused by the transfer of the business entity no later than 2 months in advance.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding the Regulation of the Work of Domestic Workers" ( draft law under reg. No. 5695 ).
The Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine was supplemented by a new Chapter XI-A "Labor of domestic workers", which defines:
1) 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) legal status of domestic workers and the specifics of its regulation, in particular the mandatory terms of employment contracts with domestic workers;
3) additional rights, obligations, guarantees and working conditions of domestic workers;
4) working time and rest time of domestic workers;
5) specifics of terminating an employment contract with a domestic worker;
6) peculiarities of monitoring compliance with the legislation on the work of domestic workers.
The draft 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 the domestic worker and the employer, the draft Law proposes to provide for the voluntary training of domestic workers in the system of mandatory state social insurance.
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine by Order No. 161 of April 2, 2024 approved the new version of the Regulations on the Form and Content of the Ownership Structure.
According to the updated document, the following changes are foreseen.
Thus, the changes, in particular, establish:
- form and content of the ownership structure of a legal entity;
- requirements / parameters for registration of the ownership structure;
- information that must be entered for each person specified in the ownership structure;
- method of determining the size of participation in a legal entity in the relevant chain of share ownership (corporate rights);
- submission of a schematic image of the property structure and requirements for its registration;
- list of documents to be added to the property structure.
The ownership structure reflects:
- all persons who directly or indirectly own one legal entity independently or jointly with other persons (all members of the legal entity and each person in each chain of control / ownership);
- all persons who, regardless of formal ownership, have the possibility of significant or decisive influence on the management or activity of a legal entity;
- the amount of participation (percentage of corporate rights) owned by each individual and/or legal entity, each trust and/or other similar legal entity in another legal entity, trust or other similar legal entity.
The order will enter into force 90 days after the termination or cancellation of martial law in Ukraine.
