In Ukraine before the end of the year will consider a number of important bills. So, to create the announced Cabinet of the energy efficiency Fund is necessary to enact laws that will impose a penalty for late utility bills and oblige all at his own expense to conduct an audit of their apartments. In addition, the Institute develops memory, decision on the cancellation of a number of weekend holidays, and parliamentarians discussiom about the new law “On state language”. The website “Segodnia” figured out how the life of Ukrainians may change in 2017.
Russian language battle
Last month in Parliament under the authorship of 33 people’s deputies registered the bill “On state language”. MPs propose to mandate the use of the Ukrainian language not only in all bodies of state and local governments (as it was before), but to make Ukrainian the only language of education (preschool, school and higher), to extend its compulsory application in the military, stores, TV.
So, according to the document, all the media will have to work in the state language. And Newspapers, the websites, after adoption of law will move into the Ukrainian language. If the TV will perform a Russian speaker, it will simultaneously translate into the Ukrainian language.
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The bill would also affect other areas of life. In stores to serve the Ukrainians will have in their native language, all the cultural events also want to be required to carry out solely on the state. Theatre performances in other languages should be accompanied by subtitles.
Thus, in kindergartens, schools, universities, shops, the army, the media, all government bodies will sound exclusively Ukrainian language. However, the bill does not concern religion (the service can be conducted in any language) and private communication.
To monitor the implementation of the law will be the language inspector, who can also make administrative reports on offenders. For violation of the law, the Ukrainians will face fines.
- If the official during a meeting with the Ukrainian language – a fine of 3400 to 6800 UAH
- If the transport not to speak Ukrainian, or to place advertising in Russian– a fine of from 3400 to 5100 UAH
- If the newspaper is printed in Ukrainian language – a fine of 6800 to 8500 UAH
- If the product there is no information in the Ukrainian language – a fine of 5100 to 6800 UAH
If the officer “violated” twice a year the fine will be from 9800 to 11900 hryvnas with restriction of the right to occupy certain positions.
Now a bill is pending in Parliament.
Cancel the “other” holidays
The national memory Institute, has developed a package of laws on de-communization, currently working on a “sovremenie” Ukrainian calendar. On the glories of the head of the Institute Volodymyr Viatrovych, our calendar remains “traces of time”. Therefore, the officer offers to cancel the output of the eighth of March, and the first, second and devyatogo may.
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As a result, the may holidays Ukrainians will be significantly reduced. “The number of output changes from 11 currently to 9. In addition, abolished the practice of transferring the output on Monday, if the holiday falls on a Saturday-Sunday (except New year, Christmas and Easter),” – said vyatrovich.
“The number of output changes from 11 currently to 9. In addition, abolished the practice of transferring the output on Monday, if the holiday falls on a Saturday-Sunday (except New year, Christmas and Easter),” – said vyatrovich.
Instead of “old” output will be new. For example, on March 9 on the job will be not to go – to celebrate Shevchenko’s day. Another output will appear in the second Friday of September (family Day).
Will cut subsidies
Every second Ukrainian family receives a subsidy. While subsidiaty get a “discount” on the amount of water, gas, heat, light, which is provided for in the regulations. For “extra” resources to pay full price.
Now the standard for heating one square meter of 5.5 cubic meters of gas. The government proposes to reduce the ratio to 4 cubic meters (final solution, as noted in the government, will develop in April). As a result of subsidies for heating will be reduced if the Ukrainians do not revise their consumption in the direction of decrease it will have to pay more.
For example, now that the subsidies cover on the heating of the apartment is 40 square meters 220 meters of gas. If the ratio of revisits, and the family will continue to use as much gas, will have to pay on 408 hryvnias more (provided that the cost of gas does not change).
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Note, for several years in Ukraine the rate of gas consumption was reduced twice – from 11 to 5.5 cubic meters per square meter. Earlier in the apartment of 30 square meters subsidy “covers” 330 cubic meters of gas, after the may lowering of standards – a total of 165 cubic meters.
Will be obliged to spend on the audit and to pay interest on debts
According to the draft law “On energy efficiency of buildings” (according to the Vice-Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko, the document should make this year), all construction sites and has already erected buildings must undergo an energy efficiency audit at your expense. If an energy audit will be carried out in residential high-rises, will have to pay all the apartment owners. According to experts, the average audit of a typical high-rise buildings can cost 5 to 12 thousand hryvnia. The amount depends on the area of the house and the equipment that uses the energy auditor. For example, a family which had lived in the house for a hundred of apartments, for the audit will have to pay from 50 to 120 UAH
And in the new edition of the law “On housing and communal services” (the document also needs to take this year) introduced the concept of “steward” condominiums, in addition, in the document there is a controversial moment of Ukrainian debts for communal planning are required to pay a penalty. For each day of delay -0.1% of the amount of the debt. The total amount of penalties shall not exceed 100% of the debt.
