THE LAW OF UKRAINE

 

On amendments to the Code of Ukraine on administrative offences

 

The Parliament of Ukraine d e c r e e s:

I. To set out Articles 1863, 2443 of the Code of Ukraine on administrative offences (Newsletter of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1984, Appendix to No. 51, Article 1122) as follows:

“Article 1863. Violation of order of submission or use of data in state statistical observations

Non-response to state statistical observations conducted by statistical bodies and other state agencies involved in state statistics or providing unreliable or incomplete data, or providing data not according to the format prescribed by statistical reporting documentation or not in time, inappropriate primary recording, violation of the procedure of updating the Integrated State Register of Enterprises and Organisations of Ukraine –

leads to imposing a penalty on citizens – in the amount of three to five tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, on officials and citizens engaged in entrepreneurial activities – in the amount of ten to fifteen tax-free minimum incomes of citizens.

Actions envisaged by Part 1 of this Article committed again during a year –

leads to imposing a penalty on citizens – in the amount of five to ten tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, on officials and citizens engaged in entrepreneurial activities – in the amount of fifteen to twenty five tax-free minimum incomes of citizens.

Violation of order of submission or use of confidential information, concealing or distorting of state statistical observation data as well as their use in publications by mass media, for dissemination through information networks, paper, magnetic and other carriers and in scientific works without referring to the
source –

leads to imposing a penalty on citizens – in the amount of five to ten tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, on officials and citizens engaged in entrepreneurial activities – in the amount of ten to twenty tax-free minimum incomes of citizens.

“Article 2443. State statistical bodies

State statistical bodies consider cases of administrative offences related to violation of order of submission or use of data in state statistical observations (Article 1863).

On behalf of state statistical bodies, the right to consider the cases and apply administrative fines is given to the chair of the specially authorised central executive body in the area of statistics and his deputies, chairs of state statistical bodies of the Republic of Crimea, regions, districts and cities/towns and their deputies”.

II. This Law shall become effective from the date of its publication.

 

 

President of Ukraine L. KUCHMA

Kyiv

13 July 2000

No. 1929-III