MPs may close public access to data on Ukrainian defense enterprises

Following the meeting, the committee recommended that the Verkhovna Rada adopt bill No. 11533 as a basis. This was reported by People's Deputy Igor Fris, who is a co-author of the bill, Ukrinform reports.

The deputy noted that a working group was created within the Committee, which included representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the State Judicial Administration, the Prosecutor General's Office, the State Special Communications Service, the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as various associations of defense industry enterprises.

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“The project was developed based on the recommendations of the working group, which advocated for closing particularly sensitive data on enterprises in the country's defense industry. We are talking about limiting access to information in the State Land Cadastre (SLC), the Register of Rights to Real Estate, the Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the Register of Inventions and Patents, and others,” Fris said.

Deputy Pele noted that currently the enemy can obtain any information about defense enterprises by studying data from the State Register of Legal Entities and the Unified Register of Court Decisions.

“Currently, information about the country's citizens, their well-being, and defense enterprises is in the public domain. This also applies to real estate, which can be easily tracked as defense enterprises, and the registration numbers of land plots where manufacturing enterprises are located. The enemy can track even any person. There have been cases when our military personnel were found using state registers. This should not happen in wartime,” Fries added.

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He also stressed that various additional services that have signed agreements with registry holders are currently making the data they receive from them as accessible as possible.

“Although the names are listed as 'PERSON1' and 'PERSON2' in the register of court decisions, the cadastral numbers and the essence of the cases are still easy to track. The enemy does not have to make significant efforts to identify enterprises and cause damage to them. The bill was developed precisely to prevent this,” the deputy added.

According to the MP, the bill was registered in the Verkhovna Rada at the end of May 2024.

The parliamentarian noted that at present there are enough votes in the Verkhovna Rada to adopt this law.

As reported by Ukrinform, the Committee on Legal Policy recommends that the Verkhovna Rada consider a bill on preventing the disclosure of certain data from the texts of court decisions.