{"id":3515,"date":"2020-06-10T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/monitoring\/posilenij-karantin-nova-vishcha-osvita-ta-timchasovij-ministr-energetiki-shcho-prijmali-uryad-i-prezident-vhidni-x-2\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:51:35","slug":"posilenij-karantin-nova-vishcha-osvita-ta-timchasovij-ministr-energetiki-shcho-prijmali-uryad-i-prezident-vhidni-x-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/monitoring\/posilenij-karantin-nova-vishcha-osvita-ta-timchasovij-ministr-energetiki-shcho-prijmali-uryad-i-prezident-vhidni-x-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules for reintroducing lockdown restrictions and policies on higher education: new decisions by Government and President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Government approved the rules for reintroducing lockdown restriction<\/h2>\n<div class=\"block_text wrap\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><strong>Decision-maker:&nbsp;<\/strong>the Government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is affected:<\/strong> Ukrainian citizens, entrepreneurs, people over 60, local government, government bodies, and the Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it change<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lockdown restrictions may be reintroduced if an oblast does not meet the requirements for easing the lockdown three days in a row<\/li>\n<li>the power to decide how and which restrictions to reintroduce belongs with the regional committee on emergency situations<\/li>\n<li>a new intermediate reopening phase is included:\n<p>?&nbsp;no mandatory self-isolation for people over 60<br \/>\n\t\t<br \/>?&nbsp;no ban on passenger flights for city airports<br \/>\n\t\t<br \/>?&nbsp;restaurants can serve clients indoors (conditional on keeping pandemic safety measures).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is right:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ukraine started to get more COVID-19 cases after lifting some of the restrictions, so it could become necessary to at least partially reimpose the lockdown. The pandemic is not over, so it is important to have a legal instrument to do that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong> <strong>is<\/strong> <strong>wrong<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Government has no authority to restrict human rights the way it has done in its resolution on declaring the lockdown<\/li>\n<li>lockdown restrictions introduced by the Government are characteristic of the emergency state rather than emergency situation, and the latter can be declared only via a presidential decree approved by the Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>President issued a decree on improving higher education system in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<div class=\"block_text wrap\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><strong>Decision-maker:&nbsp;<\/strong>the President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is affected:&nbsp;<\/strong>students, university teachers, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Government, and the Office of the President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it change<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"7\">\n<p>creates a Council on higher education development (an advisory and consultative body under the President);<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"7\">\n<p>sets for the Cabinet the following goals:<\/p>\n<p>?&nbsp;to approve a strategy on higher education development in Ukraine for 2021\u20142031<br \/>\n\t\t\t<br \/>?&nbsp;to approve state programs on research infrastructure development, renewal and expansion of dormitory network for students<br \/>\n\t\t\t<br \/>?&nbsp;create an action plan to promote natural sciences and mathematics<br \/>\n\t\t\t<br \/>? create and approve an action plan to promote Ukrainian higher education for foreign students.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is wrong<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the President has no authority to influence state policies on education. <a href=\"https:\/\/centreua.org.us15.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0e9d6ee6b71a633cc0e1c6fc8&amp;id=ed425f96d0&amp;e=0ecd4b7163\">The Cabinet<\/a> is the only authority responsible for their implementation;<\/li>\n<li>the President has no authority to set goals for the Cabinet. The Cabinet is the highest body of executive power and the President has no direct authority over it.<\/li>\n<li>such presidential decrees may not be compatible with the educational reform implemented by the Government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Olha Buslavets keeps her position as the Acting Minister of Energy<\/h2>\n<div class=\"block_text wrap\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><strong>Decision<\/strong><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><strong>maker<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> the Government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is affected:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ukrainian citizens, energy industry enterprises, the Ministry of Energy, the Government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong> <strong>does<\/strong> <strong>it<\/strong> <strong>change<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Olga Buslavets is still the Acting Minister of Energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is wrong<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>acting ministers have no authority to vote on Cabinet decisions and thus have no real decision-making power (the Cabinet is a collegial body). They act just as temporarily appointed Ministry Heads<\/li>\n<li>the Prime Minister should have already proposed a candidate for the Minister of Energy to be appointed by the Verkhovna Rada<\/li>\n<li>positions of the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Education in Denys Shmygal\u2019s Cabinet are still vacant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government approved the rules for reintroducing lockdown restriction Decision-maker:&nbsp;the Government. Who is affected: Ukrainian citizens, entrepreneurs, people over 60, local government, government bodies, and the Cabinet. What does it change: lockdown restrictions may be reintroduced if an oblast does not meet the requirements for easing the lockdown three days in a row the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[418,390,451,427,397],"level":[],"area":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monitoring","tag-education","tag-energy","tag-government-en","tag-president-en","tag-quarantine"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}