Draft law No. 4785 is aimed at simplifying the process of confiscating cars from the population. Although such a procedure already exists in legislation, the new document actually creates conditions for the rapid and, likely, uncontrolled mobilization of vehicles from both citizens and entrepreneurs.
All this is presented under the slogan of patriotic necessity. The title is correspondingly: "On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine Regarding the Improvement of Defense and Mobilization Issues During Mobilization."
The group of authors who prepared this draft law seems to consist exclusively of "patriots" who, if necessary, would probably hand over their own cars without hesitation. Among them: Oleksandr Kuzmuk, "Regionals" Serhiy Hrynevetskyi and Yuriy Samoilenko, "Svoboda" representative Yuriy Syrotyuk, and "Batkivshchyna" deputy Ivan Stoyko.
It is worth carefully reading the text of the draft law:
"The involvement of vehicles during mobilization is carried out by military commissariats on the basis of decisions of local state administrations, which are formalized by relevant orders. The acceptance and transfer of vehicles involved during mobilization, and their return during demobilization, is carried out on the basis of acceptance and transfer acts, which specify information about owners, technical condition, residual (book) value, and other necessary information that allows identifying the vehicles."
The return of vehicles to owners must occur within 90 days after the announcement of demobilization.
However, the most important thing is that this draft law allows the confiscation of cars without the introduction of a "martial law" regime. At the same time, no sanctions or liability are provided for damage to or non-return of the confiscated vehicle.
It is worth noting that even during the first mobilization, in February-March 2014, circulars from military commissariats were sent to car dealerships. Interestingly, they concerned the transfer of far from budget foreign cars for army needs. Lawyers literally fought to defend the property rights of sellers. And now, if draft law No. 4785 comes into force, military commissars will be able to freely take any car they like, whether from a dealership or from a company's fleet.
