I graduated from the Legal Faculty in Kharkov with honours, made my career in the Prosecutor’s Office, became the youngest vice principal of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and established the bank being one of the largest employers of the country and Ukrainian business in general.
When I came to the Ukrainian Parliament, I definitely had a lot to say and offer. And I did!
All of my legislative initiatives are presented in this section.
Fight against corruption
Social protection
Finance
Judiciary system
Banks and banking
Moral and ethical issues
Local government
Child protection
Privatization
Miscellaneous
LAWMAKER
Fight against corruption
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DRAFT LAW ON REGULATION OF THE ISSUES RELATED TO ALLOWANCE FOR THE OFFICIALS OF ALL BRANCHES OF POWER IN UKRAINE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STANDARDS OF ACTIVITY OF A LEGAL AND DEMOCRATIC STATE
The Draft Law is designed to reincorporate as joint-stock companies and privatize the enterprises that are at the disposal of the central state authorities of Ukraine; revoke all regulations of Ukraine which established any personal benefits for officials of the above agencies, etc.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL CODE OF UKRAINE
The purpose of this Draft Law is to encourage officials to bring to all courts, to each judge one hundred per cent of the funds allocated for their funding from the State Budget of Ukraine. The violation of this law would entail the felon's dock, real punishment.
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DRAFT LAW ON REPEAL OF BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES FOR OFFICIALS OF ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE
The Draft Law is designed to reincorporate as joint-stock companies and privatize the departmental enterprises, rehabilitation and health establishments in the possession of the highest agencies of the State, central executive authorities; repeal all regulations that set any personal benefits and privileges for officials of these authorities.
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DRAFT LAW ON TEMPORARY PROCEDURE FOR APPLICATION OF PUNISHMENT ON JUDICIAL SENTENCES IN THE FORM OF DEPRIVATION OF FREEDOM FOR THOSE CONVICTED OF COMMITTING A CRIME STIPULATED IN ARTICLE 212 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF UKRAINE
The Draft Law is designed to set a moratorium on the application of custodial sentence for those convicted of committing a crime stipulated in Article 212 of the Criminal Code, private entrepreneurs and officials being entrepreneurs.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL CODE OF UKRAINE
The purpose of this Draft Law is to establish criminal responsibility for infringement of the political independence of a People's Deputy of Ukraine or a head of a political party on the part of the officials of the special investigative agencies of the state executive authorities through the use of threats, blackmail, extortion, or slander.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL CODES OF UKRAINE
This Draft Law is designed to criminalize defamation of a public official by appending a new Article 344-1 to the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 17 AND ARTICLE 30 OF THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON UNIVERSAL MILITARY DUTY AND MILITARY SERVICE”
This Draft Law is designed to bring the relevant provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On universal military duty and military service” in line with current legislation, in particular with the Law of Ukraine “On freedom of conscience and religious organizations”.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON PENSION BENEFITS FOR MILITARY SERVICEMEN, SENIOR OFFICERS AND ENLISTED PERSONNEL OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND SOME OTHER PERSONS”
The objective of the proposed Draft Law of Ukraine is to fix a certain discrepancy in the current Law with the Constitution of Ukraine, and to bring it in line with today's realities.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO CLAUSE 6 OF SECTION X “TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS” of the LAND CODE OF UKRAINE
The purpose of this Draft Law is to restore the rights of religious organizations and associations of disabled persons in Ukraine as the subjects of the right to permanent use of land from the list of state-owned and community-owned land plots by re-registration of the right to permanent use of land.
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PRESIDENT'S SUGGESTIONS ON THE LAW “ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 3 OF THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND FREE CHOICE OF PLACE OF RESIDENCE IN UKRAINE””
The purpose of this Draft Law is to bring the norms of legislation in line with the interests of the most vulnerable social class in line with today's realities and to ensure the rights of persons with no fixed abode.
Finance
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO CERTAIN LAWS OF UKRAINE
This Draft Law is designed to establish criminal responsibility for “Intentional dissemination of misleading or unreliable information on the activities of the financial institution in the media and public information systems...”
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON PROCEDURE FOR LIQUIDATION OF OBLIGATIONS OF TAXPAYERS TO BUDGETS AND STATE TRUST FUNDS”
This Draft Law is designed to append a new sub-clause to Clause 9.3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine “On procedure for liquidation of obligations of taxpayers to budgets and state trust funds”, which provides for establishing a legal process to introduce the use of the seizure of assets of the taxpayer if he refuses to be audited.
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DRAFT DECREE ON MEASURES FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE DRAFT LAW OF UKRAINE ON TERMINATION OF STATE PARTICIPATION IN THE ACTIVITIES OF JOINT STOCK AND HOLDING COMPANIES
This Draft Law is designed to check within two months the financing and operating activities of the state (national) joint stock and holding companies and find out the amounts of finance that were received from these companies to the State Budget of Ukraine during 2001-2002.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF A TEMPORARY SPECIAL PROCEDURE FOR RETURN OF FACILITIES BY THE INDIVIDUALS IN UKRAINE
This Draft Law defines a temporary special procedure and legal conditions for return of capital to Ukraine. This Draft Law is designed to return to Ukraine the funds that have been earned by the citizens of Ukraine in 1991-2003 and are outside Ukraine.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW “ON STATE TAX SERVICE OF UKRAINE” Проект Закона о внесении дополнений в Закон Украины "О государственной налоговой службе в Украине"
The purpose of this Draft Law is to improve the tax law regarding the auditing process concerning the payment of taxes and other obligatory payments.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON BANKRUPTCY”
This Law defines the terms and procedure for adjudicating legal entities as insolvent debtors, their reorganization, adjudication in bankruptcy, and carrying out the liquidation procedure through the satisfaction of claims of creditors.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 19 OF THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF”
This Draft Law is designed to introduce the standard according to which the banking metals, as well as other currency valuables will be exempt from import duties. Its main purpose is to prevent the collapse of the banking metals market in Ukraine.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON PROCEDURE FOR LIQUIDATION OF OBLIGATIONS OF TAXPAYERS TO BUDGETS AND STATE TRUST FUNDS”
The purpose of the proposed Draft Law is to remove all nonconformities and gaps in the Law of Ukraine “On procedure for liquidation of obligations of taxpayers to budgets and state trust funds”, eliminating economically unjustified priority of the state budget over the creditors.
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DRAFT LAW OF UKRAINE “ON THE INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN LAWS OF UKRAINE”
The proposed Draft Law is intended to contribute to the establishment of civilized rules of combating the financing of terrorism in Ukraine.
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DRAFT LAW ON ECONOMIC AMNESTY
This Law establishes the legal conditions for the return of capital to Ukraine. This Draft Law is designed to return to Ukraine the funds that have been earned by the citizens of Ukraine in 1991-2002 and are outside Ukraine.
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DRAFT LAW “ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE ON PROCEDURE FOR LIQUIDATION OF OBLIGATIONS OF TAXPAYERS TO BUDGETS AND STATE TRUST FUNDS”
This Draft Law establishes the procedure for liquidation of obligations of legal entities or individuals to budgets and state trust funds for taxes and fees, charges and payment of fines and penalties applied against taxpayers by the regulatory authorities.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE DECREE OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE “ON THE SYSTEM OF CURRENCY REGULATION AND CURRENCY CONTROL” AND THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON THE USE OF CASH REGISTERS IN TRADE SECTOR, FOOD SERVICE SECTOR AND SERVICE SECTOR”
This Draft Law fairly specifies the provisions of the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On the system of currency regulation and currency control” and the Law of Ukraine “On the use of cash registers in trade sector, food service sector and service sector” with respect to the legislative regulation of the circulation of banking metals.
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DRAFT LAW ON THE INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW “ON STATE REGISTER OF INDIVIDUAL PAYERS OF TAXES AND OTHER OBLIGATORY PAYMENTS”
The proposed Draft Law is aimed at eliminating the gaps in the Law of Ukraine “On state register of individual payers of taxes and other obligatory payments”
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OPINION ON THE DRAFT LAW OF UKRAINE “ON EFFECTING PAYMENTS WITHIN UKRAINE AND THE PROCEDURE FOR ENSURING PERFORMANCE OF TAX LIABILITIES”
The Draft Law provides for amending the existing procedure for payment of taxes or, in the words of this project, “performance of tax liabilities”.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO ARTICLE 6 AND ARTICLE 11 OF THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON VALUE ADDED TAX”
This Draft Law is designed to reduce the rate of value added tax from 20 to 0.01% and set a moratorium on changing the rate of this tax during a 5-year period.
Judiciary system
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS”
The purpose of the proposed Draft Law is to eliminate all conflicts and gaps in the legislation of Ukraine, to gain social respect to judicial decisions, to eliminate the priority of the state budget over the creditors at the expense of creditors themselves, etc. The project eliminates the corrupt practices and possible acts of omission of state enforcement officers.
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DRAFT DECREE ON ADOPTION OF THE LAW OF UKRAINE ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 57 OF THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF UKRAINE AS A WHOLE”
This Decree includes a provision for the adoption of the mentioned Law as a whole.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM”
This Draft Law is designed to allow the entities to initiate imposing disciplinary sanctions on the judges to get the right to appeal the decision of the Qualifications Commission.
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DRAFT DECREE ON THE INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE “STATUTE CONCERNING UKRAINIAN PASSPORT”
This Draft Decree is aimed at improving the norms of the law ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN LAWS OF UKRAINE
This Draft Law is designed to legislate the enforcement of judgments of the arbitration court by the public enforcement service pursuant to the Law of Ukraine “On Enforcement Proceedings”, in case of failure to enforce the court decision on a voluntary basis.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM”
This Draft Law is designed to allow the entities to initiate imposing disciplinary sanctions on the judges to get the right to appeal the decision of the Qualifications Commission.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE CODE OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES OF UKRAINE
This Draft Law is designed to introduce amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences in order to establish liability for failure to comply with the legislation of Ukraine concerning the registration of regulatory legal acts.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE ECONOMIC PROCEDURAL CODE OF UKRAINE Проект Закона о внесении изменений и дополнений в Хозяйственный процессуальный кодекс Украины
This Draft Law is designed to introduce amendments to the Economic Procedural Code of Ukraine which would improve the procedure for review under cassational procedure of resolutions or orders of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine, in particular, provide for the participation of representatives of the parties in the dispute and procedure for securing a claim.
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DRAFT LAW ON THE INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON ANTIMONOPOLY COMMITTEE OF UKRAINE”
This Draft Law provides for some restriction of rights of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, which in violation of the Constitution of Ukraine is granted a number of procedural rights that are unique to law enforcement agencies and the courts.
Banks and banking
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON PERSONAL INCOME TAX”
This Draft Law is designed to align the provisions on entry into force of clause 4.2.12 and clauses 9.2.1 - 9.2.2 of the Law regulating the procedure of taxation of income of citizens in the form of interest on a bank deposit, deposit in the non-bank financial institutions, etc.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON BANKS AND BANKING”
This Draft Law is designed to introduce amendments to the term “major shareholding”; cancel the permission of the NBU for the major shareholding; not to provide the Bank customers with information of persons having major shareholding in the bank; introduce additional restrictions on the provision of commercially confidential information by the bank.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON BANKS AND BANKING”
This Draft Law shall allow the banks to establish their own business units equipped with automatic and semi-automatic rifled firearms.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE ACTS
This Draft Law, in particular, changes the procedure for applying the enforcement actions to banks or other entities that may be subject to verification of the NBU, for violation of banking legislation or conducting risky transactions that threaten the interests of depositors or other creditors of the bank.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON DEPOSIT INSURANCE FUND”
This Draft Law defines a new procedure for assessment of a regular collection to the Deposit Insurance Fund and its payment by the banks.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 3 LAW OF UKRAINE “ON MORTGAGE LENDING, TRANSACTIONS WITH CONSOLIDATED MORTGAGE DEBT AND MORTGAGE CERTIFICATES”
This Draft Law is designed to remove the restriction set out in Part 1 of Article 3 of the Law of Ukraine “On the introduction of amendments to Article 3 of the Law of Ukraine “On mortgage lending, transactions with consolidated mortgage debt and mortgage certificates””, according to which the maximum amount of a mortgage credit can not exceed 70% of the appraised value of the mortgaged property.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON BANKS AND BANKING”
This Draft Law is designed to regulate some aspects of bank auditing through introduction of additions to Article 71 of the Law of Ukraine “On Banks and Banking”. Provision is made for the introduction of a clear timeline of banks audits, the requirements concerning incompatibility of banks audits carried out by the National Bank with the audits of other regulatory bodies.
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN LAWS OF UKRAINE
This Draft Law is designed to settle discrepancies between Article 1074 of the Civil Code and the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, Law of Ukraine “On Enforcement Proceedings”, “On the procedure for liquidation of obligations of taxpayers to budgets and state trust funds”, etc.
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ПРОЕКТ ЗАКОНА О ВНЕСЕНИИ ДОПОЛНЕНИЙ В НЕКОТОРЫЕ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬНЫЕ АКТЫ УКРАИНЫ
Задача предложенного Закона - эффективное усиление законодательной защиты банковской тайны.
Moral and ethical issues
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OPINION ON THE DRAFT LAW OF UKRAINE “ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE ACTS OF UKRAINE”
This Draft Law is aimed at promoting the fight against the illicit trade in cells of human embryos through the introduction of amendments to Article 19 of the Law of Ukraine “On transplantation of organs and other anatomic materials of a human” and to Article 143 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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DRAFT LAW ON PROTECTION OF PUBLIC MORALS FROM THE PRODUCTS PROPAGATING PORNOGRAPHY
This Draft Law is aimed at promoting the aesthetic education of the citizens of Ukraine due to restrictions or bans on distribution of pornographic products. This Law is also designed to ban the distribution of materials of pornographic or sexual nature which may cause moral harm to public morality, children, adolescents and youth.
Local government
Child protection
Privatization
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 1 OF THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY SITES”
The purpose of this Draft Law is to settle some of the problems that have arisen in connection with the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On temporary prohibition of cultural property sites”. The adoption of the Draft Law will facilitate the enforcement of the rights of both individuals and entities for the privatization of non-living premises.
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DRAFT LAW ON SEIZURE AND FURTHER PRIVATIZATION OF PROPERTY OF THE FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS OF UKRAINE IN ORDER TO RETURN TO UKRAINIAN CITIZENS THE ASSETS THAT WERE LOST DUE TO THE FAULT OF THE STATE
This Draft Law provides for the seizure and subsequent privatization of property belonging to the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine within a year from the date of its entry into force hereunder.
Miscellaneous
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DRAFT LAW ON INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW OF UKRAINE “ON FIRE SAFETY”
This Draft Law contains proposals to amend the Law of Ukraine “On Fire Safety” with a view to organizing activities in the field of fire safety. In particular, they (the proposals) are aimed at clarifying the provisions relating to the distribution of powers in the field of fire safety; responsibilities of enterprises, organizations and institutions in terms of ensuring the fire safety, etc.
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DRAFT LAW ON WEAPONS
This Draft Law is aimed at regulating the weapons trafficking in Ukraine and was submitted to replace the previously distributed projects of similar laws in the registry under No. 1171 of June 6, 2002, and No. 1171-1 of October 2, 2002. Unfortunately, recommendations given by the Chief Scientific and Expert Directorate were not fully taken into account when finalizing these projects.
Social protection