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On 5 June, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Law № 3778-IX "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Introduction of Electronic Tickets for Road and Urban Electric Transport". This Law authorizes local governments to introduce an automated fare collection system, establish the procedure for its operation, and determine the person authorized to collect payment for transport services in case of the introduction of an automated fare collection system.

On 4 June, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Law № 3768-IX "On Amendments to the Labour Code of Ukraine on Establishing Additional Grounds for Termination of Employment Agreements at the Initiative of the Employer and Certain Other Issues". This Law amended Article 40 of the Labour Code of Ukraine with the following grounds for termination of an employment contract at the initiative of the employer:

• the entry into force of a court verdict convicting an employee (except for release from serving a sentence with probation) for committing a crime against the foundations of national security of Ukraine;
• failure by the employee to comply with the rules of conduct at the enterprise, institution, or organization in terms of the provisions provided for in part two of Article 142 of this Code (due to the employee's failure to comply with the obligation not to disclose restricted information, in particular, information constituting a state or commercial secret, as well as the conditions of work with confidential information).

This Law shall enter into force on 27 September 2024.

On 4 June, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Law № 3760-IX "On the Use of English in Ukraine". According to this Law:

• English is classified as a language of international communication in Ukraine;
• the requirement for proficiency in English or another foreign language may be imposed by the appointing authority on persons applying for positions in local self-government bodies (except for elected positions), whose main job duties include the performance of international cooperation functions. Such persons shall be entitled to a 10% allowance of the official salary for English language proficiency at a level not lower than B2 on the scale of the Council of Europe's recommendations on language education (CEFR) by the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
• local self-government bodies accept for consideration official documents of state authorities, local self-government bodies of foreign states, and bodies of international (interstate) organizations (associations) drawn up in English, subject to the requirement to translate them into the state language, except in cases specified by law or an international treaty of Ukraine;
• responses to appeals of foreigners and stateless persons, foreign legal entities to local self-government bodies drawn up in English may be provided in the language of the appeal at the request of the addressee;
• official Internet representations (including official websites) of local self-government bodies, along with the version in the state language, are also available in English. The English version of the official website (including the official website) must contain up-to-date and sufficient information on the main activities of the relevant authority, its management, address, and means of communication.

On 20 June, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Resolution № 3844-IX "On the Annual Report of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights on the Status of Observance and Protection of Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in Ukraine in 2023". The Parliament recommended that local governments consider the recommendations contained in the Annual report submitted by the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and take measures within their competence to ensure the proper exercise of human and civil rights and freedoms in Ukraine.

On 28 June, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (CMU) issued Resolution № 753 "On Amendments to Clause 6 of the Procedure for Performing Urgent Works to Eliminate the Consequences of the Armed Aggression of the Russian Federation Related to Damage to Buildings and Structures". According to the amendments, access to information on the work plan is restricted by the authorized body that is the manager of the said information, considering the requirements of Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information".

The executive bodies of village, settlement, and town councils, and in their absence, military administrations of settlements, are recommended to take measures to bring the information posted on their official websites in line with this Resolution in terms of non-publication of survey plans.

On 13 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 685 "On Approval of the Procedure for Monitoring the Geological Environment". The Procedure defines the mechanism for organizing and implementing a set of measures for monitoring, collecting, processing, analyzing, and storing information on monitoring the geological environment, assessing and forecasting changes in monitoring objects, exchanging information between monitoring entities in the process of monitoring, providing public authorities and local self-government bodies with information, developing scientifically based recommendations for making management decisions on improving, preserving and restoring the state of the geological environment.

The objects of geological environment monitoring are mineral resources; groundwater bodies; exogenous geological processes; endogenous geological processes; geophysical fields; geochemical state of landscapes.

The state-level geological environment monitoring entities shall ensure the exchange of information on the state of the geological environment with state authorities, local self-government bodies, data, and results of state monitoring by the procedure established by law.

This Resolution shall enter into force six months after the date of cancellation or termination of martial law.

On 13 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 684 "Some Issues of Functioning of the State Environmental Monitoring System and its Subsystems". According to this Resolution, the "Procedure for Functioning of the State Environmental Monitoring System and its Subsystems" was approved, which provides for the use of the following subsystems:

• air monitoring;
• water monitoring;
• monitoring of land and soil;
• forest monitoring;
• monitoring of biological and landscape diversity;
• monitoring in the field of waste management;
• monitoring of the geological environment;
• monitoring the impact of physical factors (temperature, noise, vibration, ionizing, and non-ionizing radiation).

Local self-government bodies are also included in the monitoring system (clause 7 of the Procedure).

At the local (local) level, they ensure electronic information interaction within the framework of the monitoring system subsystems with the relevant executive bodies of city, town, and village councils to inform the public about the state of the environment (clause 8 of the Procedure). Funding for the establishment and operation of the monitoring system and its subsystems is provided from the state and local budgets, as well as other sources not prohibited by law (clause 8 of the Procedure).

This Resolution comes into force six months after the date of cancellation or termination of martial law.

On 13 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 681 "On Amendments to Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 600 dated 30 May 2023 "On Approval of the Procedure for Providing Compensation for Destroyed Real Estate". This partially amended the "Procedure for Providing Compensation for Destroyed Real Estate".

On 13 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 680 "On Amendments to Certain Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Providing Financial Support to Individual Developers in Rural Settlements". This Resolution amended the following acts of the Government:

• "Regulation on the Procedure for Formation and Use of Funds for Support of Individual Housing Construction in Rural Areas", approved by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers № 1211 dated 3 August 1998;
• "Rules for Granting Long-Term Loans to Individual Rural Housing Developers", approved by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers № 1597 of 5 October 1998.

On 13 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 677 "On Amendments to the Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1001 dated 28 September 2011 and No. 1062 dated 12 December 2018". This Resolution amended the following acts of the Government:

• Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated 28 September 2011 № 1001 "Some Issues of Internal Audit and Establishment of Internal Audit Units";
• Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers № 1062 dated 12 December 2018 "On Approval of the Basic Principles of Internal Control by Budgetary Fund Managers and Amendments to Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 1001 dated 28 September 2011".

On 7 June, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted Resolution № 740 "Some Issues Concerning the Creation, Operation, and Maintenance of the Register of Territories Contaminated/Probably Contaminated by Explosive Ordnance". This Resolution approves the Procedure for Maintaining, Administering, and Using the Information of the Register of Areas Contaminated/Probably Contaminated by Explosive Ordnance.

The creators of the register information include, among others, officials of village, settlement, town councils, or military or civil-military administrations who have decided to grant tax exemptions from local taxes and/or fees in connection with the recognition of land plots as unfit for use due to the probable threat of their contamination by explosive objects. Such persons, based on documents on the inspection of land plots by state inspectors for control over the use and protection of land of the territorial bodies of the StateGeoCadastre or state inspectors for control over the use and protection of land to identify the facts of their use (non-use) for the intended purpose, will draw up acts of inspection of land plots in electronic form (clause 9 of the Procedure).

On 7 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 664 "Certain Issues of Reimbursement of the Cost of Childcare Services "Municipal Nanny" for the Period of Martial Law and for Three Months after its Termination or Cancellation". Under this Resolution, the Procedure for Reimbursement of the Cost of Childcare Services for Children Under Three Years of Age "Municipal Nanny", approved by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 68 dated 30 January 2019, is extended for the period of martial law and three months after its termination or cancellation to citizens of Ukraine, foreigners, and stateless persons who are parents or guardians of a child who legally reside in Ukraine and take care of:

• a child with a disability under six years of age, a child under six years of age suffering from severe perinatal nervous system disorders, severe congenital malformations, rare orphan diseases, oncological, cerebral palsy, severe mental disorders, type I diabetes mellitus (insulin-dependent), acute or chronic kidney disease of the IV degree, a child under six years of age who has suffered a serious injury, needs an organ transplant, needs palliative care, and has not been diagnosed with a disability;
• a child under six years of age, if one of the parents or guardians is a person with a disability of group I or II;
• a child under the age of three if one of the parents or guardians is an internally displaced person;
• a child under six years of age who, together with his/her parents or guardians, resides in the territory of an administrative-territorial unit where it is impossible to ensure, by the decisions of military administrations and local self-government bodies, the functioning of preschool education institutions necessary for the implementation of state guarantees for ensuring a safe educational process in martial law, emergency or state of emergency (special period).

On 7 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 663 "On Amendments to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 1049 of 3 October 2023 "On the Implementation of the Pilot Project on the Introduction of a Comprehensive Social Service for Resilience Building". This Resolution amended the mechanism for implementing the pilot project on the introduction of a comprehensive social service for building resilience. Hromadas may participate in the implementation of the pilot project at the expense of budgetary funds, charitable donations, or through co-financing with the involvement of budgetary funds and charitable donations and/or other sources not prohibited by law.

On 7 June, the CMU adopted Resolution №662 "On Amendments to Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 864 "On the Issues of Organising the Monitoring of the Quality of Administrative Services Provision" dated 11 August 2021. This resolution postponed the full implementation of monitoring the quality of administrative services until 30 December 2024 and amended the Procedure for Monitoring the Quality of Administrative Services and Publishing Information on the Results of Monitoring the Quality of Administrative Services.

On 5 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 650 "Certain Issues of Reservation of Persons Liable for Military Service during Martial Law". This Resolution:

• approved the "Procedure for reservations for persons liable for military service during martial law using the Unified State Web Portal of Electronic Services";
• stipulates that reservations for persons liable for military service submitted after the entry into force of Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 520 of 8 May 2024 "On Amendments to Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 76 of 27 January 2023" will be carried out by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine;
• local self-government bodies are obliged to submit relevant information to the Pension Fund of Ukraine via the Pension Fund of Ukraine's electronic services web portal in electronic form no later than the next day after hiring an employee or transferring him/her from one structural unit to another, dismissal, reinstatement, temporary suspension/renewal of an employment contract, with the obligatory imposition of an electronic signature based on a qualified electronic signature certificate.

On 4 June, the CMU adopted Resolution № 644 "Some Issues of State Stimulation of Creation and Operation of Industrial Parks". This Resolution:

• approved the "Procedure for Providing Funds for the Development of Industrial Parks and/or Ensuring the Construction of Engineering and Transport Infrastructure Facilities Required for the Creation and Operation of Industrial Parks, as well as Compensation for the Costs of Connection and Connection to Engineering and Transport Networks";
• the "Procedure for the Use of Funds Provided for in the State Budget for State Stimulation of the Creation of Industrial Parks", approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 341 dated 29 March 2024, was amended.

On 25 June, the CMU issued Order № 585-r "On the Allocation of Funds from the State Budget Reserve Fund to Cover Expenses for March 2024 of State, Communal and Private Property Objects". According to Annex 2 to this Order, almost UAH 48 million of additional subsidies from the state budget to local budgets were allocated to compensate municipal institutions, state educational institutions transferred to local budgets, and jointly owned institutions of municipalities of the oblast and rayon-managed by oblast and rayon councils.

On 25 June, the CMU issued Order № 583-r "On Approval of the Plan of Preparatory Measures to Ensure the Vital Activity of the Population for Certain Territories in which Military Operations are Waged". This Order approves the "Plan of Preparatory Measures to Ensure the Life of the Population for Certain Areas in which Military Operations are Waged".

The Plan applies to the territories of possible hostilities, territories of active hostilities, and territories of active hostilities where state electronic information resources operate, which are included in the list of territories where hostilities are (were) conducted or temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, approved by the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, for which the date of completion of hostilities has not been determined.

By Order № 583-r, measures to ensure the vital activity of the population may be taken in the following oblasts: Donetsk, Luhansk, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Chernihiv regions.

The following oblasts will be used to receive and accommodate possible evacuees: Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi and the city of Kyiv.

On 25 June, the CMU issued Order № 582-r "On Amendments to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 288 of 15 April 2022 "On Approval of the Operational Plan of Mine Action". This Order sets out the previously approved Operational Mine Action Plan in a new version. Local self-government bodies (with their consent) may be involved in the implementation of certain measures reflected in the updated Plan, in particular the following:

• introducing a mine action information management system and identifying mine action priorities;
• Implementation of operational response measures in case of detection of explosive hazards, in particular in the territories where military operations were conducted;
• collecting data on incidents involving explosive ordnance among the civilian population;
• informing the civilian population about the risks associated with explosive hazards, primarily in the territory of Ukraine, including in the territories where hostilities took place;
• Identifying the needs of persons affected by injuries caused by explosive objects.

On 21 June, the CMU issued Order № 572-r "On Approval of the Action Plan for 2024-2026 for the Implementation of the Concept of Mental Health Care Development in Ukraine for the Period up to 2030". This Order approves the Action Plan for 2024-2026 for the Implementation of the Concept for the Development of Mental Health Care in Ukraine for the Period up to 2030.

Local self-government bodies (with their consent) may be involved in the implementation of certain measures reflected in the above-mentioned Plan about:

• standardization of mental health services;
• ensuring access and sustainability of mental health services;
• development of the network of public spaces "Resilience Centres";
• creating conditions for the provision of psycho-emotional and psychosocial support to all population groups, including young people;
• strengthening the role of communities of people who have had or have mental disorders and members of their immediate environment in decision-making, combating stigma and discrimination related to mental disorders;
• support for the mental health of war veterans, persons with special services to the Motherland, affected participants of the Revolution of Dignity, family members of such persons, family members of deceased war veterans, family members of deceased Defenders of Ukraine;
• implementation of professional development and support programmes for specialists in various fields of activity.

On 21 June, the CMU issued Order № 569-r "On the Distribution of Subventions from the State Budget to Local Budgets for the Purchase of School Buses in 2024". According to this Order, UAH 1 billion of subventions from the state budget to local budgets was distributed among all regional budgets of Ukraine.

On 13 June, the CMU issued Order № 543-r "On the Redistribution of the Education Subvention from the State Budget to Local Budgets in 2024". According to this order, almost UAH 49 million was redistributed between the budgets of certain hromadas in Dnipropetrovs'k, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Odesa and Chernivtsi oblasts and the city of Kyiv.

On 7 June, the CMU issued Order № 527-r "On Approval of the National Strategy for the Development of Inclusive Education for the Period up to 2029 and Approval of the Operational Action Plan for its Implementation for 2024-2026". By paragraph 4 of this Order, local governments (with their consent) responsible for the implementation of the operational action plan approved by this Order must submit information on the status of its implementation to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine by 1 June each year for its generalisation and submission of a report on the status of implementation of the Strategy approved by this Order to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by 1 July.

On 4 June, the CMU issued Order № 496-r "On the Distribution of the Subvention from the State Budget to Local Budgets for the Arrangement of Safe Conditions in General Secondary Education Institutions in 2024". This Order allocated more than UAH 2 billion of the subvention to the budgets of certain hromadas in Dnipropetrovs'k, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy and Chernihiv oblasts.

On 4 June, the CMU issued Order № 493-r "On Amendments to Annex 10 to Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 1211 dated 27 December 2023". This Order sets out in a new version Annex 10 to the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 27 December 2023 No. 1211 "On Approval of the Distribution of Additional Subsidies for the Implementation of Expenditures Transferred from the State Budget for the Maintenance of Educational and Healthcare Institutions between Local Budgets in 2024" regarding the distribution of the above-mentioned additional subsidy between the budget of Kirovohrad region and the budget of the Oleksandriya urban hromada in the total amount of almost UAH 100 million.

On 7 June, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine issued Order № 1714/5 "On Approval of Amendments to Certain Regulatory Acts in the Field of State Registration of Civil Status Acts". The Order amended the following acts of the Ministry:

• "Rules for State Registration of Civil Status Acts in Ukraine" approved by Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine dated 18 October 2000 No. 52/5, registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on 18 October 2000 under No. 719/4940 (as amended by Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine dated 24 December 2010 № 3307/5);
• "Instruction on Maintaining the State Register of Civil Status Acts" approved by Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine dated 24 July 2008 No. 1269/5, registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on 25 July 2008 under № 691/15382;
• "The Procedure for Providing Paid Services by Civil Registration Offices", approved by Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine dated 27 December 2010 No. 3335/5, registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on 29 December 2010 under No. 1380/18675;
• "Rules for Amendments to Civil Records, Their Renewal and Cancellation" approved by Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine dated 12 January 2011 No. 96/5, registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on 14 January 2011 under No. 55/18793;
• the amount of fee for the provision of paid services by civil registry offices was updated (Annex 1 to the Procedure for Provision of Paid Services by Civil Registration Offices (clause 6);
• the application for state registration of marriage was amended (Annex 6 to the Rules of State Registration of Civil Status Acts in Ukraine (clause 7 of Chapter 2 of Section III)).

On 6 June, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine issued Order № 819 "On Amendments to the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine of 22 May 2024 No. 731 "On Approval of the Peculiarities of Using the Educational Subvention from the State Budget to Local Budgets (under the Special Fund of the State Budget) to Ensure the Teaching of the Subject "Defence of Ukraine". Therefore, the list of teaching aids and equipment to ensure the teaching of the subject "Defence of Ukraine" by educational institutions is now defined by the "Model List of Teaching Aids and Equipment for Classrooms of the Subject "Defence of Ukraine" of Educational Institutions Providing Complete General Secondary Education, approved by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine № 1357 dated 13 December 2021.