Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed amendments to the law on state secrets, the presidential press service reported on Tuesday.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed the law on amendments to the law on state secrets on July 6.
According to the law, decisions to assign the status of state secret to any information, changing the secrecy classification and the cancellation of decisions to assign the status of state secret to any information are made by state secret experts within one month from the moment of receiving applications from local government bodies, companies, organizations or citizens.
The law says that these decisions are to be registered in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and they are grounds for the drawing up of a list of state secret documents.
The procedure for the registration of state experts’ decisions is determined by the Ukrainian cabinet.
According to the law, documents are to be sent to the SBU by state bodies, local government bodies, companies and organizations to apply for the right to have access to state secrets.
