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Ukraine Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act
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ВЕРХОВНА РАДА УКРАЇНИ
VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE
IX Convocation / 2026 Session
ПРОЕКТ ЗАКОНУ / DRAFT LAW
ВНЕСЕНИЙ ________ (Народними депутатами України) INTRODUCED BY ________ (People's Deputies of Ukraine)
ПРО ВСТАНОВЛЕННЯ ПРОГРАМИ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВОМ, РЕСУРСАМИ ТА ТОВАРАМИ ПЕРШОЇ НЕОБХІДНОСТІ, ПРО ВСТАНОВЛЕННЯ ПРОГРАМИ СПРИЯННЯ ГРОМАДСЬКОМУ ЗДОРОВ'Ю, ТА ПРО МОДЕРНІЗАЦІЮ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ СИСТЕМИ ОСВІТИ
CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAMMES FOR FOOD, RESOURCE, AND COMMODITY ASSURANCE, FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROMOTION, AND FOR EDUCATION MODERNISATION, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS, ESTABLISHING COORDINATION WITH THE UKRAINE FACILITY AND THE NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION FRAMEWORK, AND PROVIDING FOR ADMINISTRATION THROUGH THE DIIA DIGITAL STATE PLATFORM
ЗАКОН / A LAW
LONG TITLE / ДОВГИЙ НАЗВА
ЗАКОН УКРАЇНИ ПРО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВОМ, РЕСУРСАМИ ТА ТОВАРАМИ ПЕРШОЇ НЕОБХІДНОСТІ В УКРАЇНІ
A LAW OF UKRAINE concerning the establishment of the Ukrainian Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Programme; the establishment of Ukrainian Food Assurance Centres in every government-controlled oblast; the conferral of an in-kind commodity entitlement on every Ukrainian citizen ordinarily resident in government-controlled territory and on every recognised internally displaced person; coordination with the Ukraine Facility (€50 billion European Union financial assistance programme for 2024-2027) and with the National Reconstruction Framework arising from the joint Ukraine / World Bank / European Commission / United Nations Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA5, 23 February 2026, estimating total recovery and reconstruction cost at almost $588 billion over the next decade); operation through the existing Diia digital state platform (22.9 million users) without requiring new administrative machinery; coordination with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Territorial Defence Forces for wartime logistics; and provision for re-extension of programme operation to liberated territory upon Ukrainian recovery of administrative control over presently occupied territories of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and the city of Sevastopol.
LEGISLATIVE ROUTING NOTE
This Draft Law is for introduction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, IX Convocation, 2026 Session, by People's Deputies of Ukraine under the standard right of legislative initiative conferred by Article 93 of the Constitution of Ukraine on the President of Ukraine, People's Deputies, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and the National Bank of Ukraine.
Suggested committee referrals following the First Reading:
- Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans' Rights (Комітет з питань соціальної політики та захисту прав ветеранів) — for welfare-related provisions - Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy (Комітет з питань фінансів, податкової та митної політики) — for fiscal provisions - Committee on European Integration (Комітет з питань європейської інтеграції) — for Ukraine Facility coordination - Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy (Комітет з питань аграрної та земельної політики) — for food-distribution and agricultural provisions - Committee on Education, Science and Innovation (Комітет з питань освіти, науки та інновацій) — for education-modernisation provisions - Committee on Public Health, Medical Assistance and Health Insurance (Комітет з питань здоров'я нації, медичної допомоги та медичного страхування) — for public-health provisions - Committee on the Organisation of State Power, Local Self- Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning (Комітет з питань організації державної влади, місцевого самоврядування, регіонального розвитку та містобудування) — for the oblast-level coordination provisions
Following Verkhovna Rada passage in the Third Reading the Draft Law is submitted to the President of Ukraine for signature. The President may sign, return with suggested amendments, or take no action within fifteen days, in which case the Draft Law is deemed signed.
DIVISION I — FOOD ASSURANCE
ARTICLE 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN FOOD, RESOURCE, AND
COMMODITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME.
(1) There is hereby established the Ukrainian Food, Resource, and
Commodity Assurance Programme (Українська програма забезпечення
продовольством, ресурсами та товарами першої необхідності,
"the Programme"), administered by the Ministry of Social Policy
(Міністерство соціальної політики України) in coordination with
the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food (Міністерство аграрної
політики та продовольства України), the Ministry of Finance, and
the heads of the oblast state administrations.
(2) The Programme shall operate Ukrainian Food Assurance Centres
(Українські центри забезпечення продовольством, "UFACs") in
every oblast under Ukrainian government control on the effective
date of this Act, delivering at-cost distribution of basic-needs
food and essential goods.
(3) The Programme operates with full coordination with the Armed
Forces of Ukraine and the Territorial Defence Forces under
wartime conditions for distribution security, route planning,
and front-line community supply continuity.
ARTICLE 2. ENTITLEMENT TO PARTICIPATE.
(1) Every Ukrainian citizen ordinarily resident in territory under
Ukrainian government control, identified through the Diia
digital state platform, is automatically entitled to participate
in the Programme.
(2) Every officially recognised internally displaced person
(внутрішньо переміщена особа, "IDP") holding the Certificate of
Registration of Internally Displaced Person is likewise
entitled.
(3) Foreign citizens lawfully resident in Ukraine on the effective
date who hold a Diia account are likewise entitled.
(4) Participation is voluntary. No citizen is required to obtain
goods through the Programme; the existing commercial retail
market continues to operate unaffected.
ARTICLE 3. PROGRAMME GOODS AND AT-COST PRICING.
(1) UFAC outlets shall offer for distribution at production cost
plus reasonable distribution allowance:
(a) Non-perishable food (rice, kasha [grains], bread products,
canned proteins, canned vegetables and fruits, baking
supplies, cooking oils, tea);
(b) Frozen food (proteins, vegetables, ready meals);
(c) Basic clothing (work clothing, weather-appropriate
outerwear suitable for the Ukrainian climate, military-
coordinated cold-weather clothing for civilian use,
undergarments, footwear);
(d) Hand tools, household goods, basic kitchen and cleaning
supplies;
(e) Educational supplies for K-25 students (paper, pens,
calculators, textbooks);
(f) Basic baby and child supplies (nappies, formula, basic
clothing, child-safety equipment);
(g) Generator fuel, candles, portable lighting, and basic
cold-weather survival supplies, in light of Russian
targeting of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
(2) Pricing shall be calculated on the at-cost basis: the
production cost of the goods plus reasonable distribution
allowance.
(3) Enrolment, eligibility verification, and (where applicable)
cash-element distribution shall be administered through the
existing Diia digital state platform infrastructure, requiring
no separate administrative enrolment by the citizen or by the
IDP.
DIVISION II — PUBLIC HEALTH PROMOTION
ARTICLE 4. PUBLIC HEALTH PROMOTION DECLARATION.
The Verkhovna Rada declares the following.
(1) Wartime food insecurity, IDP displacement, prolonged separation
from agricultural production, energy-infrastructure attacks
affecting cold-chain food safety, and chronic stress are
declared by the Verkhovna Rada to be public-health conditions
requiring structural response.
(2) The National Health Service of Ukraine (Національна служба
здоров'я України, "NHSU") is directed to monitor and to report
annually to the Verkhovna Rada on the relationship between UFAC
access in each oblast and the hospitalisation rates for stress-
mediated cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental-health
conditions.
DIVISION III — EDUCATION MODERNISATION
ARTICLE 5. EDUCATION PIPELINE AND THE K-25 EXTENSION.
(1) The Ukrainian education system is acknowledged by this Act as
a foundation for the K-25 developmental pipeline proposed by
the Vitruvian Quotient framework (Cooper, 2026).
(2) The Minister of Education and Science (Міністр освіти і науки
України) is directed to prepare a report to the Verkhovna Rada
within twenty-four months of the effective date of this Act
on the operational steps required to extend developmental and
competency-maintenance frameworks beyond the current
compulsory-education age, including coordination with the
post-secondary technical and university sectors and with
wartime-disrupted-education recovery programmes.
(3) The Vitruvian Quotient framework (Cooper, 2026) is recognised
by this Act as the conceptual instrument for the K-25 pipeline
proposal. The detailed implementation of a Ukrainian K-25
Education Modernisation Law is the subject of a separate Draft
Law to be prepared on the basis of the Minister of Education's
report.
DIVISION IV — FUNDING
ARTICLE 6. INITIAL APPROPRIATION.
(1) For the financial year 2027 there is appropriated from the
Ukrainian state budget the sum of UAH 30 billion (тридцять
мільярдів гривень) for the establishment of the Programme and
the initial construction and operation of UFAC outlets.
(2) Subsequent annual appropriations shall be made in the ordinary
annual state budget Law.
ARTICLE 7. COORDINATION WITH THE UKRAINE FACILITY.
(1) UFAC infrastructure capital investment may, by agreement
between the Ministry of Social Policy and the Coordination
Platform for the Ukraine Facility, be co-financed from the
€50 billion Ukraine Facility (2024-2027) European Union
financial assistance programme, where consistent with the
Ukraine Plan endorsed by the European Commission on 15 April
2024 and as subsequently amended.
(2) Coordination with the Ukraine Facility shall be reported
annually to the Verkhovna Rada through the standard Ukraine
Facility implementation reporting mechanism.
ARTICLE 8. COORDINATION WITH THE RDNA RECONSTRUCTION FRAMEWORK.
(1) The Programme shall coordinate with the Ukrainian National
Recovery Plan and the implementation of the joint Ukraine /
World Bank / European Commission / United Nations Rapid Damage
and Needs Assessment (most recent: RDNA5, 23 February 2026)
where Programme infrastructure is co-located with reconstruction
of damaged civilian infrastructure.
(2) Where Programme outlets are constructed as part of broader
reconstruction of an oblast urban centre, town, or hromada
administrative centre, the Programme may receive co-financing
from the relevant RDNA-aligned funding lines.
DIVISION V — GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 9. NO NEW TAXATION.
(1) The Verkhovna Rada declares that no new Ukrainian personal
income tax, profit tax, value added tax, excise duty, or other
Ukrainian tax of any kind is established, extended, or
increased by this Act for the funding of the Programme.
(2) The Programme is funded through existing Ukrainian fiscal
infrastructure as enumerated in Division IV.
ARTICLE 10. EXISTING UKRAINIAN INSTITUTIONS UNAFFECTED.
This Act does not affect the establishment, functions, governance, or operation of:
(a) The National Bank of Ukraine (Національний банк України); (b) Ukreximbank, Oschadbank, or any other state-owned bank; (c) The National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU); (d) Energoatom, Ukrenergo, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Ukrzaliznytsia,
Ukrposhta, and other state-owned enterprises;
(e) Diia and the Ministry of Digital Transformation, other than
the enrolment and distribution use expressly authorised by
this Act;
(f) The Coordination Platform for the Ukraine Facility, beyond
the coordination expressly authorised by Article 7;
(g) The Cabinet of Ministers, the Verkhovna Rada, the President
of Ukraine, the judiciary, and the Constitution.
ARTICLE 11. COORDINATION WITH THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE.
(1) During the operation of martial law and for the duration of
Russian armed aggression against Ukraine, the Programme shall
coordinate at every operational level with the Armed Forces
of Ukraine and the Territorial Defence Forces for distribution
security, supply route planning, and front-line community
supply continuity.
(2) Programme outlets in front-line oblasts shall coordinate with
the Joint Forces Operation command structure as applicable.
ARTICLE 12. IDP-SPECIFIC PROVISIONS.
(1) The Programme shall maintain dedicated UFAC distribution
points in major IDP-host oblasts, including but not limited
to Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, and
other oblasts hosting significant IDP populations.
(2) Programme registration through Diia shall recognise the
Certificate of Registration of Internally Displaced Person
as sufficient identification for Programme eligibility, with
no requirement that the IDP return to their oblast of origin
for enrolment.
ARTICLE 13. AGRICULTURAL-COOPERATIVE PARTNERSHIP.
(1) The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food is directed to
enter partnership agreements with Ukrainian agricultural
cooperatives and producer associations for the supply of
Ukrainian-grown agricultural commodities to the Programme,
consistent with the long-standing Ukrainian cooperative
tradition and supportive of the reconstruction of Ukrainian
rural economic capacity.
(2) Partnership shall preserve the autonomy of the cooperative,
its membership governance, and its capacity to supply non-
Programme commercial customers alongside Programme
distribution.
ARTICLE 14. RE-EXTENSION TO LIBERATED TERRITORY.
(1) The provisions of this Act apply in full to territory under
Ukrainian government control on the effective date of this
Act, and are suspended from operation in any territory under
Russian military occupation as of the effective date.
(2) Upon Ukrainian recovery of administrative control over any
territory currently under Russian military occupation,
including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of
Sevastopol, the occupied portions of Donetsk, Luhansk,
Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, and any other territory,
the Cabinet of Ministers shall extend the operation of this
Act to such liberated territory by ordinance within six
months of confirmed administrative recovery.
(3) Extension to liberated territory shall include priority
establishment of UFAC outlets to address the food and
commodity needs of liberated populations who have endured
occupation.
ARTICLE 15. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(1) This Act takes effect on 1 January 2027, except that Article
6 (Initial Appropriation) takes effect on the date this Act
is promulgated, and Article 1 (Establishment) takes effect
ninety days after promulgation.
(2) The Cabinet of Ministers shall issue implementing
regulations within 120 days of promulgation.
ARTICLE 16. INTERPRETATION.
In this Act —
"the Programme" means the Ukrainian Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Programme established under Article 1;
"a UFAC outlet" means a Ukrainian Food Assurance Centre established under Article 1;
"Diia" means the Ukrainian digital-state platform operated by the Ministry of Digital Transformation;
"Ukraine Facility" means the European Union financial assistance programme for Ukraine for 2024-2027;
"oblast" (область) means an administrative region of Ukraine;
"hromada" (громада) means a Ukrainian community-level administrative unit;
"IDP" means an internally displaced person of Ukraine recognised by the Certificate of Registration of Internally Displaced Person;
"government-controlled territory" means territory of Ukraine under the administrative control of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the relevant date;
"ordinarily resident" has the meaning given by Ukrainian residence law as applied for the purposes of this Act.