17 March 2021, 09:38
The Committee appealed to the Verkhovna Rada to adopt a resolution calling on the German Bundestag to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people
At its meeting on March 17, the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into
the EU considered the draft Resolution No. 5032. It proposes to approve
the Address of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the German Bundestag on
the recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the
Ukrainian people, which took the lives of about 4 million Ukrainians.
The petition to the Bundestag with such request received the required
number of signatures in May 2019. In October 2019 it was discussed at
the Petition Committee of the Bundestag but the Committee did not make
a decision. The authors of the draft resolution are convinced that the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine should inform German parliamentarians that
from the point of view of international law and practice the Holodomor
should be qualified as genocide, including appealing to Germany's
previous experience in similar situations. The Committee recommended
that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopt the draft resolution.
With the same appeal the Committee addressed the Parliament on the
following drafts:
• Draft Law No. 0089 on Ratification of the Agreement between Ukraine
and the Republic of Finland on Mutual Protection of Restricted
Information.
• Draft Law No. 0090. It proposes to ratify the Protocol amending the
Convention between Ukraine and the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the
avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with
respect to taxes on income and on capital.
• Draft Law No. 0091 on Ukraine's accession to the Inter-American
Convention on Support Obligations.
• Draft Law No. 0092 on Ratification of the Convention on the Choice of
Court Agreements.
At the meeting, the following draft
laws were recognized as not contradicting the law of the European Union:
• Draft Law No. 5021 on improving the principles of creation and
operation of industrial parks, which, in particular, proposes free
connection of industrial parks to the electricity grid. According to
the Committee, in accordance with paragraph 5 of Annex XXVII-A of the
AA, Ukraine should consult with the European Commission on the
compatibility of the draft with the EU law.
• Draft Law No. 5108. The draft law proposes to establish the frequency
of the all-Ukrainian census at least once every ten years. It is
proposed to obtain data for the Census by modern methods, in
particular, via the Internet, as well as the use of national electronic
information systems.
• Draft Law No. 4349 on the procedure for accounting and financial
reporting in the state social insurance funds and the Social Protection
Fund for Persons with Disabilities.
• Draft Law No. 5043. The draft law proposes amendments to the taxation
of income from the organization of gambling in the halls of slot
machines, namely — sets a rate of 18 percent of income and for
lotteries — 30 percent of income. The Committee concluded that the
draft law doesn’t contradict Ukraine’s international obligations in the
field of European integration. The same conclusions apply to the
alternative draft law No. 5043-1.
• Draft Law No. 4576. It proposes to charge the utility services
consumers for actually consumed services and to cancel the accrual of
penalties for late payment.
The committee members recognized that the draft Law No. 4597 does not
contain provisions concerning Ukraine’s international obligations in
the field of European integration. The document proposes to prohibit
the transfer of weekends and working days due to calendar holidays.