The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Tuesday issued a decree on establishment of the State Council on the problems of technogenic and ecological safety and emergency situations (ES), which explains what will the Commission for emergency situations.

yesterday at the meeting with the State service for emergency situations of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted the opinion on the introduction of state of emergency in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and introduced a regime of high preparedness across the country. Also created the state emergency Commission and the network of regional centres to respond to an emergency.

The resolution approved by the Commission, and the state service for emergency situations defined by the key body providing methodological and information support of the activities of the Commission.

the Committee includes all members of government, heads of Central Executive bodies, as Well as Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine Andriy Korolev, head of NNEGC "Energoatom" Yuriy Nedashkovsky, Chairman of the state Bank "Sberbank" Andrew Fuller, the Director General of the state concern "Ukroboronprom" romance Novels and Director of the state holding " Ukrenergo ". First it was rumored that the head of the Commission is the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, 2 Vice - Deputy Prime Minister Gennady Zubko and the head of Gosslugbi for emergency situations Sergei Bochkov.

"The Commission is continuously acting body, coordinating the activities of Central and local authorities, ensuring industrial environmental safety, protection of population and territories from emergencies, measures to counter terrorism and military threat, emergency prevention and response," said the resolution.

The state Commission is entitled to apply without prior approval of the forces and means of preventing emergency situations (except for inventories reserve), to hear of Directors authorities and to receive from the authorities the materials and documents to draw for the destruction of the consequences of emergency situations forces all functional and territorial subsystems of a single system of civil protection, as Well as to consider the materials of the investigation on the causes of the disaster and to make proposals on bringing to administrative or liability under the criminal code of the guilty officials violence.

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