LAW OF UKRAINE

of October 22, 1999 No. 1192-XIV

About the humanitarian assistance

This Law determines legal, organizational, social basis of obtaining, provision, registration, distribution and control of target use of the humanitarian assistance and helps publicity and transparency of this process.

Article 1. Determination of terms and concepts

In this Law the following terms and concepts are used in the following sense:

1) the free help (transfer, performance of works, rendering services) - humanitarian assistance without any cash, material or other types of compensations to donors of the humanitarian assistance;

2) the humanitarian assistance - the target address free help in cash or natural form, in the form of irretrievable financial aid or donations, or the help in type of performance of works, the provision of services provided by foreign and domestic donors based on humanity to the receivers of the humanitarian assistance in Ukraine or abroad needing the help in connection with social vulnerability, material neediness, difficult financial position, introduction of warlike or emergency state, emergence of emergency situation or serious illness of the particular physical person and also for preparation for the armed protection of the state and its protection in case of the armed aggression or armed conflict;

3) donors of the humanitarian assistance (further - donors) - the legal entities created and registered according to the legislation of Ukraine or foreign state and the physical persons which are in Ukraine or beyond its limits which voluntarily provide the humanitarian aid to receivers of the humanitarian assistance in Ukraine or beyond its limits;

4) measures of official control - phytosanitary control, veterinary health control, the state control of compliance with law about foodstuff, sterns, by-products of animal origin, health and wellbeing of the animals performed according to the legislation of Ukraine;

5) receivers of the humanitarian help - legal entities, and also the accredited representations of foreign states, the international and foreign humanitarian organizations in Ukraine (without creation of the legal entity) determined in the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by receivers of the humanitarian assistance:

a) public associations, including public associations of veterans of war, public associations of persons with disability, the companies and the organizations founded by them and created according to the procedure, determined by the Law of Ukraine "About public associations", - for implementation of their authorized activities without the profit earning purpose;

b) non-profitable state and municipal companies, organizations, organizations and local government bodies;

c) the central executive body realizing state policy in the sphere of civil protection and/or other authorized central executive body - for ensuring forces of civil protection subordinated to such bodies;

d) Society of the Red Cross of Ukraine both its regional and local organizations with the status of the legal entity through which this society performs the activities according to the Charter of Society of the Red Cross of Ukraine and the Law of Ukraine "About Society of the Red Cross of Ukraine";

") the charitable organizations formed according to the procedure, determined by the Law of Ukraine "About charity and charitable organizations";

e) the religious organizations registered according to the procedure, determined by the Law of Ukraine "About liberty of conscience and the religious organizations";

e) organizations, the companies, organizations irrespective of pattern of ownership performing rehabilitation of persons with disability and children with disability according to the state social standard rates in the sphere of rehabilitation, the suppliers of social services entered in the Register of suppliers and receivers of social services;

aa) the suppliers of medical and/or rehabilitation services irrespective of pattern of ownership who signed the contract on medical attendance of the population with the central executive body realizing state policy in the sphere of the state financial guarantees of medical attendance of the population, the healthcare institutions relating to the sphere of management of subjects of the sector of safety and defense;

g) the separate divisions of foreign non-governmental organizations accredited in Ukraine;

h) representative offices of international intergovernmental organizations in Ukraine (without creation of the legal entity);

z) diplomatic representations, consular establishments of foreign states in Ukraine;

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