OREANDA-NEWS. December 05, 2008. Ministry of Industrial Policy drafts a bill on development and production of new types of arms. In the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine a session of the interdepartmental working group on elaborating the draft Law of Ukraine “On development and production of arms, defense and special technology” was held.

Representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Secretariat, Ministry of Education, Economics Ministry, Interior Ministry, NASU, State Border Service, National Space Agency, State Committee of Ukraine on technological regulation and consumption policy participated in the session.

In the course of the session experts of the Ministry of Industrial Policy threw light upon issues on implementation of measures on materials’ preparation of the bill “On development and production of arms, defense and special technology”.

According to the First Deputy Minister Vitalii Nemilostivyi, the new edition of the draft Law of Ukraine sets out in detail the principles of public administration and activity management in the sphere of defense complex, requirements to the subjects of complex pursuing the economical activity connected with development, production, exploitation, repair, updating and utilization of the defense-military technology.