NAUDI calls on Cabinet of Ministers to extend defence industry workers’ mobilisation exemptions until February 1, 2027
The National Association of Ukrainian Defence Industries (NAUDI) has called on the government to extend existing mobilisation exemptions in the defence industry until February 1, 2027, and establish a one-year validity period for enterprises’ critical status.
The appeal was published on Facebook, Censor.NET reports.
Details
The association addressed Prime Minister Koretskyi with industry proposals to resolve the critical situation concerning mobilisation exemptions for defence industry employees that arose after Cabinet Resolution No. 1328 took effect.
What changes are proposed?
- Extend critical status and deferments until February 1, 2027. This would involve automatically extending decisions designating enterprises as critically important (that expire on or before December 31, 2026), as well as existing mobilisation deferments granted to employees liable for military service through the Diia portal.
- Set a 100% mobilisation exemption quota for critical defence industry enterprises until February 1, 2027. The association proposes setting the maximum exemption quota at 100% of employees liable for military service at enterprises designated as critically important by the Ministry of Defence, without requiring separate decisions to increase the limits or applying exemption cancellation procedures for exceeding quotas.
"In addition to urgent crisis-response measures, NAUDI insists that further comprehensive updates to the Mobilisation Exemption Procedure (Cabinet Resolution No. 76) establish a validity period of at least 12 months for defence industry enterprises’ critical status decisions and employees’ deferments, covering the period of state contract performance," the statement reads.
NAUDI said constant changes risk slowing production cycles because defence industry manufacturing processes are long-term, while the need to prepare document packages again every 90 days places an excessive administrative burden on management and engineering and technical personnel.
There is also a risk of overloading government agencies and digital infrastructure.
"The simultaneous submission of hundreds of thousands of document packages once a quarter will place a critical load on the relevant ministries, the Coordination Centre, the Pension Fund and the Diia portal, threatening technical delays," the association explained.
The risks also include losing highly specialised personnel.
"If document reviews are delayed, existing deferments will expire before new decisions are adopted. This will automatically strip engineers, designers and operators of complex equipment of their mobilisation exemptions and, consequently, bring production lines to a halt," NAUDI said.
