The Government has announced  and adopted a package of construction resolutions. The Interstate Consultants Engineers Guild offers a brief digest of legislation news on this subject.

Noteworthy are the following resolutions adopted on April 24 as part of the “Construction Cabinet of Ministers:”

• Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.04.2026 No. 528 introduces implementation of a pilot project of administrative service provision in construction that stipulates the right of clients to choose where exactly they want to obtain administrative services – in a local architecture and construction oversight authority or in the State Inspection for Architecture and Urban Development of Ukraine (DIAM). It should be remembered that a similar choice will apply to the architecture and construction oversight, i.e. it will be fulfilled by the authority that issued the construction work permit.

The pilot project will last until the end of the martial law but no longer than two years after this decree comes into force. It is still not decided which authority will be following up the facilities not commissioned at the time the pilot project ends.

• Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.04.2026 No. 527 introduces amendments to Decree of 24.06.2022 No. 722 “Some issues of permission and registration in construction during the martial law” concerning appeals against decisions of an authorized architecture and urban-development body to refuse issuing urban-planning requirements and restrictions for a land lot development (RR). The client now can appeal to the DIAM against such a decision via their user account if infringements in issuing the RR are revealed. Such an appeal must be satisfied within 20 days.

Before that, Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.06.2022 No. 722 also allowed doing the design without obtaining the RR if local architecture authorities did not provide them or did not refuse to do so within a period set by the law. Now, if DIAM satisfies the appeal against the decision on refusing the RR issue, one can also obtain the permits without the RR and proceed with construction.

The clients should note that design and construction of complex facilities without obtaining the RR requires close cooperation with the designer, local self-government authorities, permit and oversight bodies in order to avoid problems when the oversight and commissioning are carried out. It is essential to engage a consulting engineer to support such projects, primarily during early stages of implementation.

Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.04.2026 No. 524 amends Decree of 23.12.2021 No. 1427 “Issues of using the airfield environs.” Such zones have certain land use restrictions and a separate procedure to determine the maximum height and respective planning restrictions in the RR.

The amendments are meant to improve the interaction between the urban-planning, aviation, and defense authorities to allow construction near civic airfields that have no valid certificates confirming their operational capacity to assess the impact of planned facilities. However, it should be recognized that investment attractiveness of near-airfield areas remains low due to war-related risks.

• They have also launched procurement under framework agreements by the Centralized Procurement Organization of the Agency for Restoration. To this end,

– Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.04.2026 No. 520 approves the procedure of implementing the pilot project of procurement using framework agreements to restore municipalities and facilities affected by war (to take effect on 25.06.2026);

– Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.04.2026 No. 521 amends Decree of 01.04.2025 No. 362 ”Some issues of implementing the pilot project related to activities of the Centralized Procurement Organization at the State Agency for Infrastructure Restoration and Development of Ukraine.”

It is about the mechanism that will allow the Centralized Procurement Organization forming a list of contractors that meet qualification requirements, and the clients will use that list to select a contractor for a specific project.

The practical implementation of this pilot project will show how effective such approach is.

• Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24.04.2026 No. 526 significantly changes and amends Decree of 19.11.2025 No. 1512 that stipulates the specifics of determining the cost of construction during the martial law.

The key updates concern calculation of wages at all stages of cost formation, which we reported previously, аs well as analysis of material resource prices (this will be the topic of a following publication).

In addition, this decree now applies to scheduled mid-level repairs, maintenance, and operational maintenance of public roads, which is the reason why it even got a new title.

Other ICEG’s publications about legal regulation in construction can be found on our website in the  News of Legislation.