Over 15,000 amendments have been submitted to the draft Civil Code – Stefanchuk
He announced this on Facebook.
“15,328 amendments have been submitted to the draft Civil Code. On the one hand, the number seems staggering. But on the other hand: the Code consists of almost 2,000 articles, so arithmetically speaking, that’s 7–8 amendments per article, which doesn’t seem like much. We have had bills where the number of amendments to a single article ran into the hundreds,” said the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada.
He noted that the vast majority of amendments were submitted by 3–4 MPs (7–8 thousand each, either individually or as co-authors). As Stefanchuk explains, this is an attempt by MPs to block the bill’s consideration at the second reading.
As for the rest of the MPs, they submitted “quite constructive amendments in a reasonable number”. According to Stefanchuk, these amendments will be discussed by a working group, so the authorities will work to find a compromise, as they are interested in “jointly improving the text of the bill”.
“Separately, we continue to work actively with various communities, civil society organisations and professional associations that have put forward their rather constructive comments on the text. Some of these are reflected, in particular, in my amendments to the draft Civil Code,” added the Speaker of Parliament.
Summing up, Stefanchuk added that “we remain committed to constructive cooperation” regarding the finalisation of this document. At the same time, he pointed out that some MPs had said they did not have enough time to study the draft over the past six months, yet had submitted thousands of amendments within weeks.
“The only thing that is difficult to understand is how certain colleagues, who said they did not have enough time during the six months the Civil Code was under public consultation to read it, managed to do so in 21 days and submitted 8,000 amendments each. I sincerely hope that they managed not only to write them, but also to read them,” concluded Ruslan Stefanchuk.
Civil Code of Ukraine: what is known
As a reminder, on 28 April, the Verkhovna Rada supported in principle a draft law on the update of the Civil Code of Ukraine. The document is intended to be a fundamental reform of private law, yet even at the first reading stage it sparked a wave of criticism.
We also reported that during the adoption of the draft, the provisions that caused the greatest public outcry were removed from the document. In particular, the document enshrined the possibility of marriage from the age of 16, whilst the provision regarding the age of 14 was removed.
Follow us on Telegram
