Booking in Ukraine: which enterprises are critically important and who can get a deferment from mobilization
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The National Security and Defense Council instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to improve the criteria for determining critically important enterprises for booking employees. Employees of heating companies, water utilities, and other important enterprises will be able to receive a deferment from mobilization.
The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to improve the criteria for determining enterprises, institutions, and organizations as critically important for meeting the needs of the Defense Forces during a special period, and also to introduce the possibility of reserving employees of heating companies, water utilities, and household waste management companies. UNN reports on the criteria for establishing a critically important enterprise and who can receive a reservation.
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Yesterday, February 5, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Decree No. 69/2025, according to which the National Security and Defense Council instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to improve the criteria for determining enterprises, institutions, and organizations as critically important for meeting the needs of the Defense Forces during a special period, regarding:
- enterprises, institutions, and organizations authorized by the Ministry of Defense to perform the functions of a state customer service in the defense sector for the purpose of carrying out defense procurement and concluding state contracts (agreements) for the procurement of goods, works, and services;
- enterprises, institutions, and organizations that, based on agreements concluded with military units, other military formations, higher military educational institutions, carry out the production (supply) of goods, performance of works, and provision of services, the list, quantity (volumes), and cost of which are determined by the Ministry of Defense;
- establishing special features for determining critically important for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the vital activity of the population during a special period for business entities – producers of electrical and thermal energy, which include production facilities that were destroyed or damaged as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, in particular regarding the non-application to such entities of the criterion of absence of debt for paying taxes to state and local budgets and a single contribution to compulsory state social insurance.
The decree also provides for instructions to the Cabinet of Ministers regarding the introduction of the possibility of reserving conscripted employees of heating companies, water utilities, and household waste management companies for the period of martial law, in volumes not exceeding 75% of the total number of conscripted employees of such companies.
In addition, today, February 6, a bill was registered in the Verkhovna Rada, according to which mobile operators are planned to be classified as critically important enterprises.
Reservation
Reservation is a deferment from conscription for military service during mobilization, which is granted to employees to ensure their functioning during a special period.
In May last year, the so-called "mobilization law" came into force, which defines who has the right to deferment, but the procedure and organization of reservation, criteria, list of positions and professions, as well as the volumes of reservation of conscripts are determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
According to government resolution No. 76, enterprises that are critically important for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the vital activity of the population during a special period, as well as critically important for meeting the needs of the Armed Forces and other military formations during a special period, can obtain the right to reservation.
Critically important enterprise
To obtain such status, an enterprise must meet the following criteria (3 criteria are sufficient):
- the total amount of taxes, fees, payments to state and local budgets, excluding customs payments, and the amount of the single contribution to compulsory state social insurance paid during the reporting tax year exceeds the equivalent of 1.5 million euros;
- the amount of foreign currency receipts, excluding credits and loans, for the reporting tax year exceeds the equivalent of 32 million euros;
- the enterprise, institution, organization is of strategic importance for the economy and security of the state (a detailed list can be found at the link);
- the enterprise, institution, organization is of important significance for the national economy or ensuring the needs of the territorial community (determined by local authorities);
- absence of tax arrears to state and local budgets;
- the enterprise, institution, organization is a resident of Diia City;
- the average salary must be at least 20 thousand hryvnias for the reporting period.
Which enterprises in Ukraine are critically important
Critically important enterprises, as defined by the government, include:
- specialized UN agencies, foreign diplomatic missions in Ukraine, foreign diplomatic missions of Ukraine, representative offices of international organizations according to the list approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
- representative offices of donor institutions, implementers of international technical assistance projects according to the list approved by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
- the research service of the Verkhovna Rada, as well as enterprises under the management of bodies that manage state property;
- religious organizations according to the list and criteria approved by the SESS;
- mine action operators.
Recently, the government adopted a decision that allowed reserving employees who carry out emergency recovery work on gas distribution systems as part of emergency brigades and maintain the accident-free operation of gas supply systems, as well as employees of companies that carry out international transportation of passengers and/or goods.
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Critically important enterprises for the Defense Forces
The Ministry of Defense can separately determine the criticality of an enterprise:
- enterprises that perform state contracts for the procurement of goods, works, and services for defense purposes, concluded with the Ministry of Defense;
- involved as co-executors and participate in the performance of state contracts for the procurement, supply, repair, and modernization of weapons, military and special equipment, weapons, and ammunition;
- carry out training, retraining, and advanced training of drone operators, but a necessary condition is at least 100 trained pilots of unmanned aerial systems over the past 12 months;
- carry out training, retraining, and advanced training in electronic warfare;
- carry out training, retraining, and advanced training of military personnel in pre-medical care;
- charitable organizations that carry out the production/procurement of goods, performance of works, and provision of services necessary to meet the needs of the Armed Forces, if their volume over the past 12 months prior to the date of application is at least 10 million hryvnias of assistance per conscript proposed for reservation.
Who else can be reserved
All conscripts are subject to reservation:
- who hold positions of civil service category “A”;
- who hold positions of full-time employees of patronage services of state bodies;
- who hold positions of heads of regional, district, Kyiv and Sevastopol city state administrations (military administrations if they are formed);
- who hold positions of civil service category “B”, but who are temporarily assigned to perform duties in a vacant position of civil service category “A”;
- who hold positions of heads of regional, district, district councils, village, settlement, city heads;
- employees of critically important institutions, which include full-time national teams of Olympic, non-Olympic sports and sports for persons with disabilities, the list of which is approved by the Ministry of Youth and Sports;
- who hold positions of prosthetists-orthotists, prosthetist-orthotist technicians, prosthetist-orthotist engineers, prosthetist engineers, mechanics of prosthetic-orthotic products, provided that they perform at least 50 percent of the working time norm during the last three months preceding the date of submission of the list, with appropriate justification;
- medical workers of state and communal health care institutions, public health institutions, institutions that carry out forensic medical and forensic psychiatric examinations, blood centers, for whom work in the relevant institutions is the main place of work;
- who hold positions of prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
Also subject to reservation are conscripts who:
- work or serve in civil service positions of categories “B”, “C” - 50 percent of the number of conscripts in these categories;
- work or serve in state authorities, other state bodies, the National Police, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the State Bureau of Investigation, prosecutor's offices, BEB, the State Emergency Service, the State Criminal Executive Service, the Judicial Protection Service, courts, institutions of the justice system and pre-trial investigation bodies (50% of the number of conscripts).
Conscripts at critically important enterprises, institutions, and organizations for the economy are reserved for a period of up to 12 months.
For employees of international organizations, the deferment is valid for no longer than the term of the agreement (contract) or the term for which they are appointed.
What will happen after February 28
In November last year, the Cabinet of Ministers published updated rules for reserving conscripts during mobilization and martial law.
For everyone who has already received a deferment from conscription, it remains valid until the end of the period for which it was granted. But there are restrictions: no deferment will be valid longer than February 28, 2025. This applies to deferments issued by the Ministry of Economy, as well as those issued through the Unified State Electronic Services Web Portal.
In December, the Ministry of Economy resumed granting critical status to enterprises for reserving employees according to updated criteria.
From January 22 to March 1, the re-reservation of conscripted employees is simplified through the "Diia" portal. Critical enterprises can submit applications for reservation without waiting 72 hours.
Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology - Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov previously reported that the current reservation is valid until February 28, 2025, but it can be canceled in advance and a new one can be issued without interruptions.
The algorithm on the "Diia" portal is the same:
- go to the citizen's cabinet and select "submit application";
- enter the data of candidates for reservation;
- confirm that the employee's salary is over 20 thousand hryvnias;
- check the application and sign it.