On Thursday, March 14, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management will hold a meeting via videoconference at 11:00 a.m.
EcoPolitic has prepared the committee's agenda for its readers.
MPs will consider the documents for which the environmental committee has been designated as the lead agency, namely:
- Draft Law No. 11024 "On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine" on ensuring the preservation of territories and objects of the Nature Reserve Fund" the availability of the opinion of the Chief Scientific and Expert Department of the Verkhovna Rada apparatus (GNEU);
- Draft Law No. 9516 "On Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding Effective Forest Management Based on Forest Management Based on the Principles of Forestry Close to Nature, Adapted to Climate Change, and Biodiversity Conservation in Forests."
The Environmental Committee is also to submit its proposals to the draft law No. 10427 "On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Circulation of Cotton Seeds in Ukraine" and the alternative draft law No. 10427-1.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that Olena Kryvoruchkina, Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Environmental Committee, criticized the report of the Head of the State Agency of Forest Resources Viktor Smal on the results of work in 2023, in particular, for contradictory information on the scale of illegal logging.
