Who will be given a deferral from mobilisation: The National Security Committee considered amendments
22 March 2024 16:26
The Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence has considered another set of amendments to the draft law on mobilisation and has come up with 1845 amendments. MP Iryna Friz said that the committee did not support the amendments to defer certain categories of people, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
TheCommittee did not support the proposal to grant a postponement to: prosecutors of the prosecutor’s office, advisers, assistants, the President’s press secretary, employees of the secretariats of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, his First Deputy and deputies, employees of the secretariats of parliamentary factions (groups) in the parliament, employees of the patronage services of the Prime Minister and other members of the government and other state bodies.
“These categories, as well as prosecutors, will be entitled to reservations in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers, and not to an unconditional postponement of mobilisation,”
– said Iryna Friz.
During its consideration, the Committee supported the deferral:
- for adoptive parents who are dependent on a child (children) who, prior to the adoption, were orphans or children deprived of parental care, guardians, trustees, foster parents, foster carers, foster carers, who are dependent on at least one orphan or child deprived of parental care under the age of 18
- for one of the parents with a child under the age of 18, if the other parent is serving a sentence in prison;
- women and men who have three or more children under the age of 18, except for those who are in arrears in the payment of alimony for three months;
- women and men who have a child under 18 if the other parent has died, been deprived of parental rights, declared missing, or if the person is raising and supporting the child on his/her own by court order or the father is recorded in the Birth Registration Book under part one of Article 135 of the Family Code;
- those raising a child with a disability under the age of 18;
- those who have a dependent adult child who is a person with a disability of group I or II.
The committee took a break until the next meeting to prepare an editorial amendment from committee members regarding people who are engaged in caring for their spouse, child, their parents or their spouse’s parents.
“This provision was the most controversial, because on the one hand it is used by evaders, and on the other hand, we have no right to violate the rights of those who need care. We have submitted 158 amendments to this rule,”
– Freese explained.
Earlier, the National Security, Defence and Intelligence Committee considered all 16 areas of the draft law on mobilisation.
It was decided to discuss the main issue – demobilisation – during the consideration of amendments, not in the wording proposed by the government. This means that the current version does not have the support of the Committee.
You can read about the important amendments previously supported by the Verkhovna Rada Committee here: Draft law on mobilisation: what important amendments were supported by the Rada committee
Draft law on mobilisation
on 7 February, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a new draft law on mobilisation without proposals from the relevant committee. It is expected to be voted on as a whole at the end of February, and the draft law may come into force in April.
The draft law proposes, among other things, to introduce summonses through the conscript’s electronic cabinet. Other innovations include lowering the conscription age to 25 years, setting a demobilisation period of 36 months, introducing voluntary mobilisation for convicts, restrictions on evaders, banning civil service without military training, etc.
Read more about the new document in our article: Government submits new draft law on mobilisation: main provisions.
