National Security Committee supports important amendments to the law on mobilisation
20 March 2024 12:08
The Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has considered 660 more amendments to the new law on mobilisation. This was reported by MP Iryna Friz, according to Komersant ukrainskyi 
MPs have reached the section of amendments to Article 23 on postponement of conscription, which includes several hundred amendments, and settled on 1505 amendments.
“Given that several hundred amendments by various authors relate to this particular section with proposals for the wording proposed by the government, it was decided to prepare general committee amendments that would take into account the Committee’s previous decisions in these areas. They are voluminous and socially resonant,”
– freese explained.
We are talking about the deferment for persons liable for military service:
- state authorities
- local self-government bodies
- persons with disabilities;
- persons with three or more children under 18 years of age as dependents;
- those who support a child alone if the other parent has died, been deprived of parental rights, is missing, or is permanently abroad;
- guardians, trustees, foster parents, foster parents raising a child with a disability under the age of 18;
- persons engaged in permanent care of a sick wife (husband), child, or their parents or spouse;
- members of families of the first and second degree of kinship who are engaged in permanent care for persons of the first or second disability group in the absence of others;
- scientists and employees of higher and pre-higher education institutions;
- those whose relatives are missing;
- those whose close relatives have been killed;
- those released from captivity.
According to Friz, all these proposals, after discussions with the authors and the development of a compromise version, can be consolidated in the committee’s amendments so as not to delay the consideration of the draft law in the Rada.
She also said that the Committee supported such amendments:
- the possibility for citizens who arrived at the JCCC on their own with referrals from specific military units to serve after training in those units
- electronic cabinet as a right, not an obligation;
- rejection of electronic summonses;
- a new wording regarding communities with a permanent population of up to 10,000 people in terms of vesting the authority to notify and mobilise with district state administrations, not starostas.
It should be noted that the National Security, Defence and Intelligence Committee had previously considered all 16 areas of the draft law on mobilisation.
The main issue – demobilisation – was decided to be discussed 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 the demobilisation period at 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.
