Ukrainian MPs at a plenary sitting on Thursday voted down a law on support for the agricultural industry, a correspondent of Interfax-Ukraine has reported.
Parliament passed a law on amendments to the law on state support for the agricultural sector on July 4, 2012 and sent it to the president, who in turn vetoed it, and on August 6, 2012 returned it for consideration by the parliament.
The president proposed that MPs vote against this law.
The deputies did not support the president’s proposal to reject the law, but as a result of the voting, the law was in fact rejected.
The law proposed the sale or free transfer of goods subject to state regulation in special cases: including the end of the set term for the storage of state price-controlled goods, as well as in the event of the spoiling or worsening of their quality ahead of their storage expiry date, as long as they are replaced in the state intervention fund with the same number and quality of state price-controlled goods.
In addition, sales or free transfer of such objects, according to the law, would be subject to the simultaneous deposit of objects of state price regulation of the same quantity and quality. The measures are aimed at increasing the efficiency of the use of state price-controlled goods.
