In the decree the main directions of public policy in the sphere of ensuring food security of the state are defined.
According to article 107 of the Constitution of Ukraine I decide:
To install the decision of National Security council and defense of Ukraine against December 9, 2005 “About a condition of agro-industrial complex and measures for ensuring food security of Ukraine”.
In connection with the decision of National Security council and defense of Ukraine:
1. To determine by the main directions of public policy in the sphere of ensuring food security of the state:
ensuring appropriate quality and safety of the food production realized in domestic market, and its price availability to the population of Ukraine;
stimulation of production of agricultural production of a vegetative and animal origin according to needs of the population by increase of level of security of agro-industrial complex by material resources;
further reforming of the agrarian sphere of economy, statement of market bases of functioning of agro-industrial complex;
ensuring rational use and appropriate protection of lands of agricultural purpose;
development of infrastructure of the agrarian market, in particular exchange trade in food resources, with attraction to participation in such trade of agricultural enterprises, farmer and personal country farms, regulation of activity of the wholesale food markets;
motivation increase to productive work in agricultural industry, ensuring development of infrastructure of rural territories and the social sphere of the village;
improvement of the state support of agricultural industry, providing its direction on a gain in productivity, increase of competitiveness and technological level of agricultural production;
stimulation of attraction of investments into agro-industrial complex;
ensuring formation in full volume and efficiency of use of the state reserve of the food.
2. To cabinet council of Ukraine:
1) to submit in accordance with the established procedure on consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the bill of the Comprehensive program of support and development of the Ukrainian village;
2) to develop and in two-month term to approve measures on:
to development of the effective market of grain, having provided, in particular, introduction of mechanisms of stimulation of production of grain, innovative technologies, providing constant sales markets of grain and improvement for this purpose activities of the State committee of Ukraine for the state material reserve, the State stock company “Bread of Ukraine” and Agrarian fund;
to development of meat and dairy animal husbandry;
to restructuring and development of sveklovichny branch for the period till 2010;
to providing subjects of agrarian sector with modern agricultural machinery, in particular by revival of national production of equipment, and also technical and repair base;
3) to study in two-month term questions and in case of need to introduce in accordance with the established procedure bills about:
introduction of a special mode of taxation on profit of agricultural enterprises of the processing industry, which activity has seasonal nature;
liberalizations of a tax mode for the enterprises of agro-industrial complex which import processing equipment for modernization of own production, having provided reduction of customs tariffs, extension of a maturity date of tax bills which stand out on a tax discharge delay on the added cost at an import of processing equipment, by the beginning of production use of such equipment, but no more than for 360 days;
4) to apply in two-month term of a measure for ensuring development of market infrastructure of agro-industrial complex, in particular, a way:
– activization of use of forward and future contracts in the market of agrarian production;
– formations of a guarantee fund of warehouse documents on grain;
– developments of cooperative business on production and sale of agricultural production;
– improvements of system of monitoring of the agrarian market, informing of producers and consumers of agrarian production concerning the prices, demand and offers in the agrarian market;
5) to provide development and to introduce till June 1, 2006 in accordance with the established procedure on consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine bills:
about modification of acts of Ukraine concerning food security for the purpose of their reduction in compliance with norms and standards of the World organization of trade and the European Union law;
about modification of the Law of Ukraine “About the state support of agricultural industry of Ukraine” relatively:
– insurance improvements in agro-industrial complex, in particular regarding insurance of capital assets, streamlining of activity of fund of agrarian insurance subsidies, the list of insurance services on which the state compensation of insurance premiums (contributions), increases in the maximum size of insurance premiums (contributions) for compensation extends;
– state support of producers of meat and meat production, milk and dairy products;
– improvements of mechanisms of price influence of the state on the markets of agrarian production;
about modification of the Law of Ukraine “About safety and quality of foodstuff”, in particular concerning cancellation of operational permissions;
about modification of Laws of Ukraine “About a mortgage” and “About a ground lease” concerning possibility of guarantee of laws of estate on the land lots for receiving the average and long-term credits;
about modification of the Law of Ukraine “About operations with raw materials supplied by the customer in the external economic relations” concerning a ban of import on custom territory of Ukraine of meat and meat products as raw materials supplied by the customer, streamlining of operations with raw materials supplied by the customer in special economic zones and in territories of priority development;
about features of realization of the right of the common joint property owners of property shares of agricultural enterprises;
about non-profitable production country associations;
about cooperative banks;
6) to provide support in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of bills:
about the state system of biosafety at creation, test and practical use of genetically modified organisms (registration No. 2017);
about modification of the Law of Ukraine “About an assessment of lands” (registration No. 7333);
about modification of some acts of Ukraine (rather personal country economy) (registration No. 7685);
about system of technical providing agro-industrial complex of Ukraine (registration No. 7728);
about meat and meat products (registration No. 8060);
about food security of Ukraine (registration No. 8098);
about the wholesale markets of agricultural production (registration No. 8375);
about fishery and industrial fishery (registration No. 8492);
7) to analyse a condition of functioning of agro-industrial complex in the conditions of the lowered rates of duty on agrarian production and to make in accordance with the established procedure offers on increases of rates of duty for the corresponding agricultural production;
8) to submit offers on measures for development of irrigated agriculture in the south of Ukraine;
9) to take additional measures to ensuring unconditional implementation of the Presidential decree of Ukraine from August 30, 2004 of No. 1021 “About measures for development of the agrarian market”;
10) to take measures for improvement of mechanisms of the state support of agro-industrial complex, having provided introduction of system of an assessment of efficiency of the appropriate budgetary programs, the account and control of use of means;
11) to consider till February 1, 2006 a question of expediency of introduction of the mechanism of providing the state support to agricultural producers, proceeding from calculation on one hectare of crops of crops;
12) to provide, since 2006, introduction of system of balances of production and consumption on main types of agrarian production at the state and regional levels;
13) to take measures for formation till February 1, 2006 of the state food reserve in the volumes necessary for ensuring of food security of the state and stabilization of functioning of the domestic food market, and also to undertake necessary steps on improvement of an order of formation of such reserve the next marketing years;
14) to provide accurate delimitation of functions on formation of the state food reserve between the State committee of Ukraine on the state material reserve, Agrarian fund, the State stock company “Bread of Ukraine”;
15) to study a question of expediency of privatization of National joint stock company "Ukragroleasing" and the State stock company “Bread of Ukraine”;
16) to analyse a financial condition of the enterprises of the flour-grinding and baking industry and by results of the analysis to take the appropriate measures on its stabilization;
17) to apply in accordance with the established procedure measures for expansion of functions of the Ministry of an agrarian policy of Ukraine, in particular concerning management of development of rural territories, realization of investment policy in agro-industrial complex, modeling and forecasting of its development;
18) to apply in accordance with the established procedure in three-months term of a measure for introduction in structure of territorial bodies of the State committee of Ukraine on ground resources of engineers-zemleustroiteley of villages, settlements and the cities;
19) to approve an order of maintaining the State register of the rights to fast estate and their restrictions, the sizes, an order of payment and use of payments for the services rendered them, and also the provision on the qualifying commission of the state registrars of the rights; to provide end till June 1, 2006 creation by the State committee of Ukraine on ground resources of uniform system of the state registration of the ware rights to fast estate and their restrictions as a part of the state land cadastre.
3. To the ministry of an agrarian policy of Ukraine:
1) to take measures for ensuring wide informing of subjects of agrarian sector about changes of conditions of managing in connection with preparation of Ukraine for the accession to the World organization of trade;
2) to develop in two-month term a package of measures on increase in appeal of crediting of agricultural producers for banks and other monetary institutions, in particular by formation of bureau of credit histories, rating bureaus;
3) together with Council of ministers of the Autonomous Republic Crimea, regional, Kiev and Sevastopol municipal public administrations in three-months term:
to provide creation of conditions for introduction of typical models of the wholesale regional agrarian markets;
to develop and approve development programs of agricultural production and serving cooperatives;
4) to study with involvement of the Ukrainian academy of agrarian sciences and Institute of economic forecasting of National academy of Sciences of Ukraine a question and to submit to three-months term in accordance with the established procedure offers on introduction of modeling of development of agro-industrial complex of Ukraine on medium-term and long-term prospect taking into account, in particular, agroecological and climatic conditions, the size of agricultural holdings and a condition of soils, quantity and qualification of workers in the rural zone, developments of infrastructure, a budgetary tax policy.
4. To the state committee of Ukraine on ground resources:
1) to accept together with the Ministry of an agrarian policy of Ukraine in a month measures for ensuring implementation of appropriate control of preservation, reproduction and increase of fertility of soils, introductions of effective system of economic stimulation of owners of land, land users and tenants of the land lots to implementation of works on increase of fertility of soils;
2) to speed up work on issue of the state acts on an ownership right on the earth according to the statements presented earlier owners of certificates on the right to a ground share (share) and to provide issue of the state acts according to such statements till April 1, 2006.
5. To the state committee of Ukraine concerning technical regulation and consumer policy, to the Ministry of an agrarian policy of Ukraine, Ministry of Health of Ukraine to strengthen work on the realization prevention in domestic market of Ukraine of poor-quality and dangerous food production.
6. Control over the implementation of this Decree to assign to the Secretary Are glad a homeland security and defense of Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Victor YUSHCHENKO
On December 28, 2005.