The Verkhovna Rada plans to ban the duplication of product information in Russian
Bill No. 15356 has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which proposes significant changes to the rules governing the language used in information about goods and services.
The bill proposes prohibiting the duplication of mandatory consumer information in the language of a country that the parliament has designated as an aggressor state.
Under the initiative, after providing information in Ukrainian, manufacturers and sellers will be allowed to use only other foreign languages.
The main goal of these changes is to minimize the influence of the aggressor state’s language in Ukraine’s informational and commercial spheres.
The bill provides for corresponding amendments to the Ukrainian laws “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language,” “On Consumer Information Regarding Food Products,” and “On the Safety and Hygiene of Animal Feed.”
All of these laws propose adopting a unified approach that excludes the possibility of including translations into the language of the occupying country.
In the explanatory note, the authors of the initiative emphasize that current legislation still does not contain such restrictions, which is inappropriate given the current realities.
Following the official recognition of the Russian Federation as an aggressor state, language policy has become an integral component of national security.
The use of the Russian language in product labeling and commercial communications creates a symbolic presence of that language in Ukraine.
The adoption of the bill will strengthen legal guarantees for the use of the state language and reduce hostile influence in the information sphere.
For businesses, this means they will need to revise multilingual labeling and advertising materials once the law takes effect.
Businesses and market operators will still be able to provide information in other foreign languages, but the use of the aggressor state’s language will be officially prohibited.
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