On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine

(Information of the Verkhovna Rada (VR), 2015, No. 16, pp. 110)

{With changes under the Act
No. 389-VIII of 12.05.2015 , BBR, 2015, No. 28, pp. 250}

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Orders:

I. Amend the following legislative acts of Ukraine:

1. Penal Code of Ukraine (Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2001, No. 25-26, art. 131) complement article 336 - 1 such content:

" Article 336 - 1 . Embezzling from the passage of civil protection in a special period or in the event of a targeted mobilization

Eviction of the civil protection service in a special period (except for the taking period) or in the case of a targeted mobilization-

is punishable by imprisonment for two to five years. "

2. In The Law of Ukraine "On the Legal Mode of Emergency" (Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2000, No. 23, pp. 176; 2003, No. 29, pp. 233; 2014, No. 15, pp. 326):

(1) In part 2 of the second article 17, the words "natural disaster or disaster" would be replaced by the words "particularly serious emergencies";

2) in part of the first article 20, the words "Civil Defence Forces" are excluded.

{Paragraph 3 of section I lost the validity of the Act No. 389-VIII of 12.05.2015 }

4. Article 3 Law of Ukraine "On Defense of Ukraine" (Parliament of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2000, No. 49, art. 420; 2011, No. 4, pp. 27) after the paragraph of seventh supplement two new paragraphs of this content:

" providing for a special period of the Operational and Rescue Service of the Civil Protection of prepared personnel, rescue and other machinery, food, substance, other material and financial resources;

Ensuring the readiness of the public authorities, local government bodies, the only public system of civil protection for the execution of tasks of civil protection in a special period. "

In this regard, the eighth-nineteenth paragraph is considered to be the seventeenth paragraph of the seventeenth.

5. In The Law of Ukraine "On the Foundations of National Security of Ukraine" (Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2003, No. 39, pp. 351; 2006, No. 14, pp. 116; 2013, No. 14, pp. 89, No. 38, pp. 499; 2014, No. 10, pp. 119, No. 22, pp. 816; 2015, No. 4, pp. 13):

1) Article 4 after the paragraph of the eleventh addition to the new paragraph of this content:

"ORGANS AND UNITS OF CIVILIAN PROTECTION".

In this regard, the paragraph of the twelfth is the paragraph of the thirteenth;

2) in Article 7 :

In paragraph thirty-fifth of the words "exacerbating the problem of maintenance in the proper technical state of nuclear facilities in Ukraine" to exclude;

after the paragraph of the sixtieth addition of six new paragraphs of such content:

" In the field of civil protection:

Disparity with the current status of the state of the sole civil protection system, civilian protection forces, and their technical equipment;

The significant anthropogenic and technogenic overload of the territory of Ukraine, the rising risks of the occurrence of emergency technology and natural nature;

The deterioration of the technical state of the hydrotechnical structure of the cascade of reservoirs on the river Dnipro;

Non-maintenance in the proper technical state of nuclear facilities on the territory of Ukraine;

the dangers of technogenic, including nuclear and biological, terrorism. "

In this regard, sixty-first-seventy-seven paragraphs are counted as paragraphs sixty-seventh and eighty-third.

Sixty-eighth paragraphs, seventy-second and seventy-fifth to exclude;

3) part two Article 8, after the paragraph of the forty-eighth complements the four new paragraphs of the following:

" In the field of civil protection:

Ensuring the effective functioning of a unified public system of civilian protection, equipping modern types of civil protection forces;

The exercise of organizational, economic, engineering and other measures to reduce the risk of emergency situations to acceptable levels;

Increased levels of environmental, nuclear and radiation safety to norms and standards in the appropriate sphere, including the transformation of the Chernobyl nuclear facility to an environmentally secure system. "

In this regard, the paragraphs of the forty-ninth to sixty-nine are according to paragraphs fifty-third to seventy-third;

4) in Article 9 :

after the paragraph of the ninth complement to the new paragraph of this content:

"The organs and units of the civil protection carry out measures to protect the population and territories from emergencies in peacetime and in the special period."

In this regard, the paragraphs of the tenth are to be considered by the eleventh to fourteenth, respectively.

in the paragraph of the eleventh word "provide protection and rescue in the event of extraordinary situations of the technogenic and natural nature" to be excluded.

II. Final Position

1. This Act will take effect from the day, the following day by the day of its publication.

2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine:

To bring their legal and legal acts into compliance with the Act;

To ensure that the ministries, other central executive bodies, have their legal and legal acts in compliance with the Act.