By KYIV. Sept 14 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Parliamentary Committee on Agricultural and Land Policy has supported a bill that simplifies the procedure for changing the designated use of land for economic recovery. The bill, authored by Member of Parliament Dmytro Kysylevsky, has passed its first reading.
“Just now, the parliamentary committee on agriculture of the Verkhovna Rada approved at the first reading my bill No. 9627, which proposes a radical simplification of the procedure for changing the designated use of land for economic recovery. This means reducing the procedure from one to three years to one and a half months,” he wrote on Facebook.
According to the report, to change the designated purpose of the land, the conclusion of the authorized body of urban planning and architecture of the local council on the possibility of placing the planned facility without the mandatory development of urban planning and land management documentation will be sufficient.
The simplified procedure applies to lands outside populated areas for which there is no developed urban planning documentation yet. It will be valid for industrial and energy facilities during the period of martial law and for five years after its termination or cancellation.
The document, which will become the basis for changing the designated purpose of the land, will at the same time allow for the design of the construction project.
Kysylevsky recalled that since the middle of 2022, a simplified procedure for changing the designated purpose of land has been in effect for relocated enterprises, multimodal terminals, ports on the Danube, housing for internally displaced persons (IDPs), engineering and communication networks, and road and transport infrastructure facilities.
Bill No. 9627 extends the simplified procedure to industrial and energy facilities.
At the same time, MP Serhiy Labaziuk, in support of this initiative, said that the document provides for a number of restrictions that “will not allow arbitrariness in populated areas.”
“These cannot be areas of natural reserves, outside populated areas, without approved urban planning documentation, etc.,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
He expressed confidence that the adoption of the bill will be an important contribution to the development of production, logistics, and processing.
