A draft bill specifying the mechanism of taking away the land from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) has been assigned a number to be further considered by the Parliament, Forbes reports.
Most of land plots, namely land for research purposes used by the research and educational institutions, are regarded to be especially valuable.
The proposed bill offers to terminate the right on permanent land use in case of voluntary refusal of the National Academy of Sciences and its subsequent withdrawal upon the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
In the authors’ opinion, the implementation of the law will strengthen the government’s control over the use of land, prevent its misuse and preserve especially valuable land.
According to the explanatory memorandum, the area of the NASU’s land decreased by 53.1 thousand hectares from 2008 to 2014, and at the beginning of 2015 made up 429.5 thousand hectares.
