The Regime - stop for the law-in-draft "On Mass Media"

Regular meeting of the public associations of the Supreme Council Committee on sport, information and youth policy determined the fate of the project of the basic law "On the Media". The President presendet it in the regime of legislative necessity to Parliament. Initially, its discussion of the deputies had been scheduled for November 1. However, at the request of the official representative the President's law-in-draft was withdrawn by the Supreme Council. In addition, Vladimir Bodnar recommended to hold parliamentary hearings with representatives of the journalistic community. In order to study the views of the journalistic community, they passed to the Supreme Council November 18.

Discussing at the meeting of parliamentary committee, the chairman Igor Bug knew about hard time factors in relation to the law-in-draft "On Mass Media". Despite the fact that the deadline for consideration by the head of the republic has been extended until December 1, "regime" to the law-in-draft has not been removed. State media service insists on the adoption of the law-in-draft in the first reading. Deputies also have a different opinion.

Deputies of the Committee at the meeting supported the legislative initiative of Oleg Petrik, aimed at raising the level of social security of the combatants. People's deputy suggests to reduce them to the retirement age for men - from 60 to 58 years for women - from 55 to 53 years, provided that they have the seniority of 25 and 20 years respectively.

The law-in-draft of the same deputy, which concerns the unconditional obligation of local authorities to provide premises for meetings and public events was also supported.