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A number of deputies spoke out in the Rada against the new rules under consideration by the government.
In the Verkhovna Rada they opposed the creation of a coordination center for organizing booking and urged the government to resume consultations on adjusting mobilization booking rules. That was the reaction of deputies from various factions to the Cabinet's resolution adopted at the government meeting on 13 October.
“Dear colleagues, Ronald Reitan once rightly noted that the government reminds him of a small child. Good appetite and poor control. We, representatives of various parliamentary factions and groups, demand the restoration of full parliamentary oversight of an extremely important and highly sensitive area — rules for granting booking from mobilization for critically important enterprises,” declared the joint statement read by Servant of the People faction MP Serhiy Rakhmanin.
He emphasized that everyone understands the need to increase the efficiency of the process of reconstituting combat units, subdivisions, etc., and therefore to improve the rules for granting booking from mobilization. However, the MP called the government's new proposals ones that “create an extremely serious risk to the state's resilience.”
“Undoubtedly, there is a need and an opportunity to clarify the criteria for granting booking so that the many organizations that are completely distant from the Armed Forces, from providing and strengthening the state's resilience, do not receive critical status either through oversight or for obscene money. However, the government's draft resolution, or rather the government resolution developed without proper communication with the relevant committee on national security, defense and intelligence, with the Verkhovna Rada as the oversight body, creates extremely serious risks for the normal functioning of the defense-industrial sector, as well as for the operation of those enterprises that are critically important for the state,” Rakhmanin added.
First of all, he said, such risks arise for those who manufacture weapons, repair and restore equipment, as well as for those responsible for the production and repair of heating, electricity, energy and communications.
“On the eve of a difficult winter the state cannot afford the luxury of putting the country's resilience at risk, criminally draining professionals from fields that are also suffering from a critical shortage of skilled personnel,” Rakhmanin noted.
Thus the deputies demand:
to cancel the unfounded Cabinet decision of 13 October;
to abandon the false idea of creating the so‑called coordination center for booking organization, the emergence of which is legally dubious and creates additional corruption risks;
to resume consultations on adjusting the booking provision rules with the Verkhovna Rada and, first and foremost, with the relevant committees on national defense and intelligence;
to hold additional consultations with businesses and the organizations that represent the defense-industrial complex, the fuel and energy sector, utilities, and communications structures;
to ensure maximal booking for those sectors that are critically important for maintaining the state's vital functions.
“And finally, the government must prevent disaster, not accelerate it,” Rakhmanin concluded.
News of the government preparing to change booking rules without proper consultations emerged a few days ago. According to Holos faction MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, the booking rules are planned to be rewritten because the current system needs revision. At the same time, the draft documents currently contain no references to bookings already granted that exceed the new limits, and no public consultations on this matter are planned.
Among other things, the changes foresee that for defense‑industrial and energy enterprises the maximum limit for booking employees will be 85% instead of the current 100%. For heat supply companies, water utilities and waste management the limit will be 75% instead of 60%. The base for calculating 50% of booked conscripts will become smaller.
In addition, it is provided that changes will be made to a special Coordination Center under the Cabinet of Ministers. Its composition will introduce 17 people, including representatives of the SBU, HUR, SZR and the National Police. Without a recommendation from this body an enterprise will not be able to receive critically important status or set a limit above 50%.
Because the booking rules are being updated without discussion, farmers are already sounding the alarm. According to Zheleznyak, this will also harm business. Business, in turn, demands dialogue from the government.
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