Glad will finalize the draft law on liability for theft of gas
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has sent a revision of the draft law, which predusmatrivaet introduction to liability under the criminal code for illegal sampling of natural gas.
First, there was the needed number of votes to pass the bill in the first reading, then 235 votes Rada adopted the conclusion on the direction of the document for revision.
today, the criminal law of Ukraine provides for liability only for theft of electrical or thermal energy by their unauthorized use. The draft law was proposed to complement this list paragraph about the theft of natural gas.
for example, it was proposed to establish that the theft of natural gas through Its unauthorized use without metering devices or the result of intentional destruction of metering devices or any other method, if such actions caused serious harm, shall be punished by imprisonment of up to five years.
Ukraine is currently experiencing a shortage of gas. His country saves by reducing procurement in Russia, while Moscow has resumed gas supplies to Kiev on December 9 after a nearly six-month break. Winter gas plan, correlated parties, suggests that gas supplies are made on a prepayment basis.
The programme of activities of the government of Ukraine on in the next few years involves raising energy prices. For 2014 the Ukrainian authorities under pressure from the IMF has repeatedly raised the tariffs of housing and communal services. At the end of December, before the New year, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said again about the need to increase the market price of gas for residents.