The President signed the law on the opening of committee meetings for journalists and the community

On December 17, Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed a law regulating the openness of parliamentary committees to the media and activists.

Source: Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Speech, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Verkhovna Rada

Details: Committee meetings must now be broadcast online and video recordings must be publicly available within 24 hours of the meeting.

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The law also stipulates that information about what the deputies are considering must be made public no later than 24 hours before the start of the meeting.

Direct speech: “Journalists and public representatives will again be able to attend committee meetings.

This effectively returns the work of Parliament to the standards of transparency that operated before the code and security restrictions. The same norms will work for local representative authorities as well.”

What preceded:

On January 14, the Verkhovna Rada supported draft law No. 11321, which provides for the opening of meetings of parliamentary committees for journalists, media workers and representatives of public organizations.

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