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Preparation for the adoption of the Urban Development Code of the PMR in the first reading

11.02.2025

A package of 10 legislations accompanying the law-in-draft "On the introduction of the Urban Development Code of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic" was considered today by deputies at a meeting of the parliamentary Committee on Regional Policy, Local Self-Government, Housing and Public Utilities.

The draft Urban Development Code of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic was co-authored by deputies of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Alexander Korshunov, Anton Onufrienko and Oleg Vasilaty.

The draft Urban Development Code was already considered in the course of the meeting of the Committee on Regional Policy and Housing and Public Utilities in the first reading in December. The amendments to the related laws presented at the Committee meeting today must be adopted at the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as a single package together with the draft Urban Development Code. These are amendments to the Constitutional Law "On the PMR Government ", to the Land and Water Codes, to the Law "On Transport", "On the Status of the Capital", as well as to the Law on Local Authorities and Local Self-Government and other current laws.

The deputies of the Committee on Regional Policy and Housing and Public Utilities recommended adopting the package of legislations related to the draft Urban Development Code of the PMR in the first reading. It was noted that a number of comments were received on the legislations, with which the authors agreed. The relevant Committee will continue to work on the package of legislations and submit them to the deputy corps for consideration for adoption in the first reading.

The draft Urban Development Code was developed in accordance with the current concept of harmonizing the legislation of the PMR with the Russian one, taking into account local specifics. As follows from the explanatory note to the law-in-draft, the proposed draft Law of the PMR "On the introduction of the Urban Development Code of the PMR" regulates relations on territorial planning, urban zoning, territory planning, architectural and construction design, relations on the construction of capital construction projects, their reconstruction, major repairs, demolition, as well as on the operation of buildings and structures, determines the competence of state authorities of the PMR, state administrations and Councils of People's Deputies of municipalities, the rights and obligations of citizens and legal entities in the field of urban development activities, the role of urban planning documentation and urban planning regulations.