You're reading: Kyiv city council approves changes to outdoor advertisement placing rules

The Kyiv City Council has permitted to change the rules of placing and removing outdoor advertising, banned placing advertisements on the landscaping elements.

The changes will be made to the urban development rules of Kyiv.

According to the draft decision, it is banned from placing advertisements on the landscaping elements, in particular, outdoor lighting equipment, surfaces of squares, streets, roads, pavements, green zones, posts, benches, signposts, fences and sustaining walls.

Outdoor advertising should be marked with information about the distributor, telephone number, permission number and its validity period. Unmarked advertising materials are subject to dismantling.

In addition, an advertisement placed arbitrarily or in forbidden places is dismantled during the week if its technical condition threatens people’s life and health, if the permit has expired or was abolished, in the event of a debt for the right to place it and other cases.

In addition, in the case of unauthorized advertising the number of the subscriber specified in the advertisement will be used to apply demand dial with an interval of several minutes. Demand dial will continue until the owner fixes the violations and pays the fine.