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On 12 February, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Law of Ukraine № 4235-IX “On amendments to paragraph 2 of section II ‘Final and transitional provisions’ of the Law of Ukraine ‘On amendments to certain laws of Ukraine on ensuring the rights of military and police officers to social protection’”. This Law extends until 5 June 2025 the period of mandatory re-examination of citizens of Ukraine aged 25 to 60 who were declared partially fit for military service before the entry into force of this Law (except for persons recognised as persons with disabilities in accordance with the established procedure).

On 8 February, Law of Ukraine № 4221-IX “On approval of the Decree of the President of Ukraine “On extension of the general mobilisation period” of 15 January 2025 came into force. This Law approved Decree № 27/2025 dated 14 January 2025, which extended the period of general mobilisation until 9 May 2025.

On 7 February, the Law of Ukraine № 4223-IX “On the mental health care system in Ukraine” of 15 January 2025 came into force. The Law stipulates that local self-government bodies, within their competence, approve and implement local development programmes in the mental health field, provide mental health services to the population, and exercise other powers defined by this Law.

On 6 February, Law of Ukraine № 4220-IX “On approval of the Decree of the President of Ukraine “On the extension of martial law in Ukraine”’ of 15 January 2025 came into force. This Law approves Decree №26/2025 dated 14 January 2025, which extended martial law until 9 May 2025.

On 25 February, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (CMU) adopted Resolution № 209 ‘On Indexation of Pension and Insurance Payments and Additional Measures to Improve the Level of Social Protection of the Most Vulnerable Populations in 2025’. The Resolution provides for the recalculation of pensions starting from 1 March 2025 by applying an increased coefficient of 1.115 to the average wage in Ukraine on which insurance contributions were paid and which is considered for pension calculation.

The amount of pensions granted in accordance with the Law of Ukraine ‘On Service in Local Self-Government Bodies’ (excluding bonuses, raises, additional pensions, targeted financial assistance, pensions for special services to Ukraine, pension indexation, extra payments to certain categories of persons who have special services to the Motherland, monthly pension supplement, targeted assistance to pension payments and other pension supplements established by law), taking into account the amount of pension increase, is increased within the maximum amount of pension determined by law.

On 25 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 208 ‘On Amendments to the Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1332 “Some Issues of Reservation of Persons Liable for Military Service for the Period of Mobilisation and Wartime” dated 22 November 2024 and No. 36 “Some Issues of Reservation of Persons Liable for Military Service for the Period of Mobilisation and Wartime” dated 14 January 2025. This Resolution extended until 31 March 2025 the validity of deferrals for persons liable for military service granted by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and which had not expired as of 26 February 2025.

On 21 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 205 ‘Some Issues of Creation, Administration and Functioning of Informatisation Facilities’. This Resolution approves the ‘Mandatory Requirements for the Creation (Modernisation, Modification, Development), Administration and Functioning of an Information Technology Tool’ and the ‘Procedure for Localisation of Software Products for the Implementation of the National Informatisation Programme’. The above acts apply to measures to create, administer and ensure the functioning of information technology tools (i.e. computers, other electronic computing equipment, software products, information systems or their elements, electronic communication networks used for the implementation of information and communication technologies), which are carried out at the expense of state and local budgets and/or aimed at performing the functions of the state or local self-government.

It should be noted that this CMU Resolution was adopted under the requirements of the Law of Ukraine ‘On the National Informatisation Programme’ № 2807-IX dated 1 December 2022, one of the main tasks of which is to ensure the implementation and implementation of measures aimed at developing e-government and e-democracy.

E-governance is a form of public administration organisation that promotes efficiency, openness and transparency of the activities of state and local self-government bodies using information and communication technologies to form a new type of state focused on meeting the needs of citizens (clause 7, part 1, article 1 of the above Law).

E-democracy is a form of social relations in which citizens and organisations are involved in public administration and local self-government through the use of information and communication technologies in democratic processes, which allows for increased citizen engagement in public life at the national, regional and local levels, increased transparency of decision-making and accountability of democratic institutions, improved response of public authorities to citizens' appeals, and promotion of public awareness.

On 21 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 201 ‘On Amendments to the Procedure for the Use of Funds Provided for in the State Budget for Measures to Implement the Rights and Freedoms of National Minorities (Communities) and Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine’. This Resolution amended the above Procedure and stated that the recipients of budgetary funds for the implementation of measures to exercise the rights and freedoms of national minorities (communities) and indigenous peoples of Ukraine may be public associations of national minorities (communities) and indigenous peoples of Ukraine, whose programmes are aimed at protecting the above persons and provide, in particular, for research in the field of interethnic relations, preservation and development of historical memory, and exercise of cultural, linguistic and educational rights.

On 21 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 194 ‘On Approval of the Procedure for Organising and Holding Public Hearings in the Process of Issuing an Integrated Environmental Permit (Amendments thereto)’. This Resolution approved the above Procedure, according to which the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine

• identifies municipalities and administrative-territorial units that may be affected by the facility's operations based on an application for an integrated environmental permit (amendments thereto);
• provides announcements of the start of public discussion in the process of issuing an integrated environmental permit (amendments thereto) to the facility operator, regional state administrations and local self-government bodies of municipalities that may be affected by the facility's activities for publication.

Public hearings are held by regional state administrations.

On 21 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 185 ‘On Approval of the Procedure and Conditions for Granting a Subvention from the State Budget to Local Budgets in 2025 for the Implementation of Certain Measures for the Implementation of the Social Project “Active Parks - Locations of a Healthy Ukraine” and Amendments to Resolution of the CMU No. 326 of 7 April 2021’. In accordance with the approved ‘Procedure and Conditions’ for the provision of the above subvention, it is used to pay for the services of coordinators (specialists) for the implementation of the social project ‘Active Parks - Locations of a Healthy Ukraine’ from among specialists of public associations of physical culture and sports, sports clubs registered in accordance with the requirements of the law as public associations that are non-profit organisations, and other specialists in the field of physical culture and sports.

On 21 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 184 ‘On Amendments to Annex 1 to Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 17 June 2015 # 413’. The Resolution amended the form of notification to the State Tax Service and its territorial bodies on hiring an employee (domestic worker)/concluding a gig contract or terminating an employment contract with a domestic worker.

On 21 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 180 ‘On Amendments to the Procedure for the Use of the Fund for Liquidation of the Consequences of Armed Aggression’. This Resolution sets out the Procedure in a new version. From now on, applications for the allocation of funds from the fund for the completion of projects implemented in previous budget periods at the expense of the fund for liquidation of the consequences of armed aggression are submitted to the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine (Ministry of Development of Ukraine) by central executive authorities, regional and Kyiv city state administrations, local self-government bodies, and the transmission system operator, together with substantiated proposals on the feasibility of their further implementation with a view to their completion in 2025.

On 21 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 178 ‘On Amendments to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 854 of 29 July 2022’. This Resolution amended the ‘Regulations on the Coordination Headquarters for Evacuation Measures and Effective Response to Mass Displacement of the Population’ and formed its staff.

On 14 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 163 “On amendments to the Procedures approved by CMU Resolutions No. 559 dated 16 May 2024 ‘Procedure for issuing (creating) and issuing a military registration document for conscripts, persons liable for military service and reservists’ and No. 932 dated 16 August 2024 ‘Procedure for implementing a pilot project on automatic verification and verification of information on conscripts, persons liable for military service and reservists’”. According to the amendments, information on the establishment and change of disability group or other serious illnesses will now be entered into the Unified State Register of Conscripts, Persons Liable for Military Service and Reservists through electronic information interaction between information and communication systems.

On 14 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 162 “On approval of the Procedure and Conditions for granting subventions from the state budget to local budgets for implementation of projects under the Ukraine Recovery Programme III”. This Resolution approves the abovementioned Procedure and Conditions for the implementation of projects, financed in accordance with the Financial Agreement ‘Ukraine Recovery Programme III’ with the European Investment Bank, ratified by the Law of Ukraine № 3905-IX dated 20 August 2024. The final beneficiaries of the subvention are local self-governments and military administrations (if established). The key administrators of the subvention are determined by the decision of the relevant local council or the order of the relevant military administration. The subvention is provided for measures to restore social and housing infrastructure in territories controlled by Ukraine, to overcome the consequences of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

On 11 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 153 “On the implementation of an experimental project to increase motivation for certain categories of Ukrainian citizens to perform military service in the armed forces during the period of martial law”. This Resolution approved the Procedure for implementing the experimental project on voluntary enlistment of citizens aged 18 to 25 years as privates, and the form of a Contract for 1 year, with a mandatory condition of direct participation in combat operations for at least 6 months during the contract period. The pilot project will run for 2 years.

On 11 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 148 “On approval of the Regulation on the integrated interagency information and communication system for control of persons, vehicles and cargo crossing the state border”. This Resolution approved the above-mentioned Regulation, which defines the main tasks, structure and procedure for the functioning of the integrated interagency information and communication system ‘Arkan’, the subjects of which can include local self-government bodies.

On 11 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 144 “On approval of the Rules for trade services”. These Rules define the general requirements for trade services, and establish the conditions for business entities to carry out production and trade activities, as well as the basic requirements for trade premises. In accordance with clause 15, the rules for trading at markets are established by the executive bodies of village, settlement and town councils. Business entities must make available a ‘consumer corner’, which contains information on the location, telephone numbers and official websites of state and local self-government bodies that protect consumer rights.

On 11 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 143 “On amendments to the Resolutions № 346 ‘On approval of the Procedure for granting annual basic leave of up to 56 calendar days to senior employees of educational institutions, educational units of other pedagogical and scientific institutions, and pedagogical employees and researchers” and № 963 “On approval of the list of positions of pedagogical and scientific and pedagogical employees’” of 14 April 1997. This Resolution expands the list of pedagogical employees of pre-school and general secondary education institutions entitled to receive annual basic leave of 56 calendar days and approves a new version of the list of positions.

On 7 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 141 “On amendments to the Procedures approved by the Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 1567 ‘Procedure for conducting raid inspections (roadside inspections)” dated 8 November 2006 and № 513 ‘Procedure for escorting a motor vehicle with signs of violation of weight or dimensional parameters to the nearest weighing station for weight and dimensional control, as well as prohibition of further movement of such a motor vehicle’, and invalidation of certain resolutions of the CMU” of 19 May 2023. This Resolution approved a new version of the Procedure for conducting raid and roadside inspections, according to which officials of state authorities, local self-government bodies and owners (balance holders) of dimensional and weight control points (upon consent) are involved in conducting such inspections.

On 7 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 134 “On approval of the Procedure and Conditions for providing subventions from the state budget to the budget of the Kharkiv city territorial community for emergency and restoration works in the housing and communal sphere in 2025”. The subvention’s administrator is determined by the decision of the Kharkiv City Council in accordance with the law. The City Council also forms the list of projects and measures financed by the subvention for the entire proven volume and submits it to the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development for approval, together with the justification for their need, within 1 month from the date of entry into force of these Procedure and Conditions.

On 7 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 130 “On amendments to the Rules of vehicle parking”. According to the amendments, the operating hours of municipally owned parking areas are set by local authorities, and those of private parking areas are set by the operator, with the local authorities being obliged to inform the operator of the established operating hours.

On 4 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 152 “On amendments to the CMU Resolutions № 1010 ‘On approval of criteria for determining planned activities not subject to environmental impact assessment and criteria for determining expansions and changes in activities and facilities not subject to environmental impact assessment’ of 13 December 2017 and № 1320 ‘Certain issues of construction and/or placement of gas piston and gas turbine installations, in particular cogeneration, block modular boiler houses, diesel/petrol and gas generators, for the period of martial law’ of 7 December 2023. According to the amendments, the list of activities that are not subject to environmental impact assessment has been expanded. Furthermore, construction, restoration, reconstruction or overhaul of gas storage facilities and oil and gas production facilities during the period of martial law is carried out without:

• preparing urban planning documentation;
• obtaining urban planning conditions and restrictions on land development;
• obtaining a report on the results of the examination of project documentation for the construction of facilities;
• obtaining the right to perform construction works;
• use of the Unified State Electronic System in the field of construction;
• heat supply schemes for settlements;
• allocation of land plots for gas storage facilities;
• environmental impact assessment in accordance with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On environmental impact assessment”; and
• approval of the State Labour Service.

On 4 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 140 “Some issues of implementation of the pilot project on provision of extended primary healthcare services to certain categories of persons who defended the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”. This Resolution launched the abovementioned pilot project and approved the Procedure for its implementation. The participants of are healthcare institutions, regardless of their form of ownership, which have obtained a licence to carry out economic activities in medical practice, have concluded a healthcare agreement with the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU) on the provision of extended primary healthcare services to the mentioned categories, and have concluded an agreement with the NHSU on healthcare services for the population under the medical guarantee programme.

On 4 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 121 “Some issues of implementation of Article 86 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On veterinary medicine’”. This Resolution approved the Procedure for paying fixed remuneration for found wild boar corpses posing a threat of spreading African swine fever. It establishes the amount per corpse at 0.5 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons established on the day of confirming the fact of detecting such a corpse (in 2025, the fixed amount of remuneration is UAH 1,514). This Resolution shall enter into force on 1 September 2025, simultaneously with the entry into force of the Law of Ukraine № 1206-IX “On veterinary medicine” dated 4 February 2021.

On 4 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 120 “Some issues of providing subventions from the state budget to local budgets in 2025 to support certain institutions and activities in the healthcare system”. This Resolution approved the Procedure and Conditions for providing these subventions, which amount to over UAH 1.3 billion and which was distributed among the regional budgets of all regions of Ukraine. Local self-governments are recommended to submit for approval to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Policy a draft decision on the reorganisation of baby homes into centres for medical rehabilitation and palliative care for children, centres for social support for families and children, and other health or social protection institutions by 1 March 2025. They should ensure that the abovementioned ministries are informed on a monthly basis by the 10th day of the month about the measures taken to reorganise baby homes. They should also reorganise baby homes into centres for medical rehabilitation and palliative care for children, centres for social support for families and children, and other healthcare or social protection institutions by 1 September 2025.

On 4 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 117 “On amendments to certain CMU resolutions concerning simplification of certain procedures in the field of construction”. This Resolution amended: the Procedure for commissioning of completed construction objects, approved by CMU Resolution No. 461 dated 13 April 2011; the Procedure for performing preparatory and construction works, approved by CMU Resolution № 466 dated 13 April 2011; the Procedure for maintaining the Unified State Electronic System in the Field of Construction, approved by CMU Resolution No. 681 of 23 June 2021; and the Procedure for assigning addresses to construction objects and real estate objects, approved by CMU Resolution No. 690 of 7 July 2021. The amendments are aimed at introducing automatic review of documents entitling to perform preparatory and construction works, as well as documents on commissioning of completed facilities.

On 4 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 115 “On amendments to the Procedure for ensuring the activities of specialists in support of war veterans and demobilised persons”. According to the amendments, a specialist in support of war veterans and demobilised persons is a full-time employee of a municipal budgetary institution (facility) or a municipal non-profit enterprise, including healthcare facilities.

On 4 February, the CMU adopted Resolution № 114 “Some issues of appointment and payment of monetary compensation for the cost of one-time in-kind assistance ‘Baby Package’”. This Resolution approved the Procedure for allocating and paying cash compensation for the ‘Baby Package’, which if not decided by the end of 2024 shall be carried out in accordance with the Procedure. It entered into force on the date of its publication and shall apply from 1 January 2025.

On 21 February, the CMU issued Resolution № 147-r ‘On the Allocation of Funds from the Reserve Fund of the State Budget to Cover Expenses for October 2024 of State, Communal and Private Property’. The funds have been allocated to cover the costs incurred in October 2024 because of free accommodation of internally displaced persons in municipal and private property:

• the Ministry of Social Policy - almost UAH 35 million to provide an additional subsidy from the state budget to local budgets to compensate municipal institutions, state educational institutions transferred to local budgets, and jointly owned institutions of territorial communities of the region and district managed by regional and district councils, distributed between regional budgets and the budget of the city of Kyiv according to Annex 2;
• to regional state administrations - almost UAH 3.0 million to provide compensation to private institutions (except for private educational institutions), as distributed in accordance with Annex 3.

On 21 February, the CMU issued Resolution № 144-r ‘On the Distribution of Subventions from the State Budget to Local Budgets for the Implementation of a Public Investment Project for the Arrangement of Safe Conditions in Secondary Education Institutions (Fire Protection), including Military (Naval, Military Sports) Lyceums, Lyceums with Enhanced Military and Physical Training, in 2025’. This Resolution allocated more than UAH 227 million of the above subvention between the regional budgets of all regions of Ukraine.

On 18 February, the CMU issued Resolution № 127-r ‘On the Allocation of Subventions from the State Budget to Local Budgets for the Implementation of a Public Investment Project for the Arrangement of Safe Conditions in General Secondary Education Institutions (Construction of Shelters), in Particular Military (Naval, Military Sports) Lyceums, and Lyceums with Enhanced Military and Physical Training, in 2025’. This Resolution allocated more than UAH 460 million of the above subvention to the budgets of individual municipalities of Ukraine.

On 7 February, the CMU issued Resolution № 96-r “On approval of the Operational Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy for Environmental Safety and Climate Change Adaptation for the period up to 2030 in 2025-2027”. Local self-governments (with their consent) have been identified as responsible for: developing climate change adaptation action plans in the areas of water management (as part of the river basin management plan), biodiversity conservation, forestry, energy, public health, agriculture and soil, transport and infrastructure, and tourism; and raising public awareness of environmental issues and climate change impacts.

On 7 February, the CMU issued Resolution № 91-r “On approval of the Concept of the State Target Environmental Programme for technical modernisation of state-owned or communal wastewater treatment and sewage treatment enterprises for the period up to 2034”. This Concept identifies the problem to be solved by the State Programme, describes three possible solutions based on a comparative analysis of their possible consequences, and indicates the expected results of its implementation and its effectiveness. The purpose of this State Programme is to protect the environment from the negative impact of wastewater discharge by constructing and modernising wastewater disposal and treatment facilities, introducing innovative technical solutions and creating economically attractive conditions for the implementation of investment projects in the wastewater sector, as well as increasing the level of public access to centralised wastewater disposal services.

On 19 February, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU) published its Letter ‘On Remuneration of Teachers of Preschool Education Institutions’ № 1/3116-25. The letter emphasises that:

• Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 27.01.2025 No. 100 ‘On Amendments to Annex 9 to Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 26 September 2005 No. 557’, which regulates the issue of remuneration of pedagogical staff of preschool education institutions, comes into force from the date of its official publication and is applicable from 1 January 2025 (from the date of entry into force of Law No. 3788). As of 18.02.2025, the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine No. 100 has not yet been published in the Official Gazette of Ukraine and has not yet entered into force;
• even though the Law of Ukraine ‘On Preschool Education’ dated 11.07.2001 No. 2628-III expired on 1 January 2025, the regulations developed to implement it are valid until the CMU and ministries bring them in line with the requirements of Law No. 3788-IX.

On 24 February, the Ministry of Development of Ukraine submitted for public discussion the Draft Law of Ukraine ‘On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Granting of a Warranty Period for Completed Construction Objects Accepted for Operation in the Prescribed Manner’. The purpose of the Draft Law is to protect consumers' rights in case they discover hidden construction defects at a construction site during the warranty period (ten years from the date of commissioning).

Suggestions and comments are accepted until 24 March at this address: i.korniienko@mtu.gov.ua.

On 20 February, the Ministry of Development of Ukraine submitted for public discussion a Draft Resolution of the CMU ‘On Amendments to the Resolution of the CMU No. 870 dated 30 October 2013’. The purpose of the new Draft CMU Resolution is to bring CMU Resolution No. 870 dated 30 October 2013 ‘On Approval of the Standard Procedure for Issuing Permits for Disturbance of Public Works Facilities or Refusal to Issue, Reissue, Issue of Duplicates, and Cancellation of Permits’ in line with the Law of Ukraine No. 4017-IX dated 10 October 2024 ‘On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine in Connection with the Adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On Administrative Procedure”.

Proposals and comments are accepted until 20 March at the following address: i.maksymishyna@mtu.gov.ua.

On 19 February, the Ministry of Development of Ukraine submitted for public discussion a Draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ‘On Amendments to the Procedure for Leasing State and Communal Property to Provide Temporary Accommodation for Internally Displaced Persons’. The purpose of the new Draft CMU Resolution is to regulate the procedure for leasing buildings and structures, premises (their separate parts) of institutions, and educational institutions to provide accommodation for internally displaced persons during the period of martial law without holding an auction during martial law and three years after its termination or cancellation.

Proposals and comments are accepted until 06 March at the following address: i.hulavska@mtu.gov.ua.