A/68/156
17 November 2010 of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine on
challenges and threats to the national security of Ukraine in 2011.
The following national policy areas may receive greater attention under
existing regulatory and legal acts:
(1) Presidential Decree No. 1119 of 10 December 2012 on the decision of the
National Security and Defence Council of 17 November 2010 on challenges and
threats to the national security of Ukraine in 2011 (paragraph 4); Presidential Decree
No. 388 of 8 June 2012 on the decision of the National Security and Defence
Council of 25 May 2012 on activities to strengthen counter-terrorism in Ukraine
(paragraph 1); Presidential Decree No. 389 of 8 June 2012 on the decision of the
National Security and Defence Council of 8 June 2012 on the updated National
Security Strategy Council (subparagraphs 3.1.1, 3.3 and 4.3); and Presidential
Decree No. 390 of 8 June 2012 on the decision of the National Security and Defence
Council of 8 June 2012 on the updated Military Doctrine of Ukraine (subparagraphs
7 and 19), contain the following objectives:
• Setting up a national cybersecurity system
• Setting up a unified nationwide system to combat cybercrime
• Drafting and approving a register of critical national security and defence sites
that are cyberattack protection priorities
• Drafting and submitting to the Parliament a draft law on national cybersecurity
• Defining cybersecurity as one of the central threats to international stability
and Ukrainian national security
• Approving, as a strategic goal and primary national security policy objective,
the preparation of national standards and technical regulations for information
and communications technologies use and their harmonization with the
relevant standards of European Union member States
• Defining the term “cyberterrorism”
• Establishing an effective mechanism in Ukraine for responding to the newest
national security threats (phenomena and trends that could, under certain
conditions, threaten national interests) related to information technology use in
a globalizing world, especially “cyberthreats”
• Analyzing cyberattacks that target nuclear and chemical industry facilities,
military-industrial facilities and other potentially hazardous sites in a show of
military force against Ukraine that could lead to military conflict;
(2) Regulatory and legal acts of the Cabinet of Ministers: Order No. 720-r of
22 August 2012 approving the Annual National Programme of Ukraine-North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Cooperation for 2012 as well as Instruction
No. 24066/1/1-12 of 15 June 2012 under the aforementioned Decision of the
National Security and Defence Council, implemented under Presidential Decree No,
388 of 8 June 2012, which also provides for the elaboration of a legislative act on
cybersecurity;
(3) The Parliament of Ukraine is considering draft laws to amend some acts
on national cybersecurity. These draft laws provide, inter alia, for the use in national
legislation of such concepts as “State cybersecurity”, “critical infrastructure sites”,
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