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Abstract. This analytical note presents the results of an analysis of the legislation of European Union Member States concerning the insurance of volunteers’ life, health, and working capacity. It focuses on the specific features of legislative regulation in this area.
Key words: volunteer; volunteer activity; organisation involving volunteers in its activities; insurance; insurance contract; accident insurance; medical insurance.
12/2025
Abstract. This analytical note presents the results of an analysis of legislative regulation of accessibility of audiovisual media services for persons with visual and hearing disabilities.
It focuses on the regulation of subtitling and audio description quotas in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, approaches to financing content accessibility, and the phased implementation of accessibility requirements for different types of media services in European Union member states (Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Italy, Germany, France, Croatia) and the United Kingdom.
Key words: audiovisual media services, audiovisual content, providers, accessibility, quotas, subtitles, audio description.
12/2025
Abstract. The analytical note presents the results of an analysis of the principles of the European Union framework policy on guarantees of access to quality services for children, in particular those at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Attention is paid to the legislative regulation of early intervention services in individual European countries. The regulatory acts of Portugal and Poland on the formation of early development and early intervention systems are analyzed. The conceptual aspects, criteria and principles of providing early intervention services are highlighted.
Key words: early intervention, children with developmental disabilities, interdisciplinary early intervention team, individual early intervention program, screening, monitoring of early intervention services.
12/2025
Abstract. The analytical note presents the results of an analysis of the legislation of the United States of America, Great Britain, Canada, and New Zealand on the symbolic honoring of families of combatants and military personnel in the context of the draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On State Awards of Ukraine” on awarding honorary titles to family members of combatants” (No. 14079 dated 26.09.2025).
Keywords: state awards, families of combatants, military personnel, honorary title, symbolic state recognition.
11/2025
Abstract. The analytical note examines the principles of legislative regulation of the use of assisted reproductive technologies in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, China and Japan. Case law is analyzed regarding permitted and prohibited practices in the field of reproductive medicine and the recognition of the legal status of children born under surrogacy programs, including cross-border ones. The focus is on the ethical standards of artificial insemination.
Key words: infertility, child, assisted reproductive technologies (ART), human embryo, ethical standards for the use of ART, reproductive medicine, surrogacy, adoption.
10/2025
Abstract. This analytical note presents the results of an analysis of European Union legislation regarding geographical indications of craft and industrial products. The genesis of a unified system for the protection of geographical indications in European countries is examined. An overview of European Union legislation on the introduction of a two-stage process for registering intellectual property rights for handicraft and industrial products and the powers of national authorities to control the specifications and marketing of these products is provided. The focus is on the consistency of Ukrainian legislation on folk arts and crafts with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2023/2411 on the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products and amendments to Regulations (EU) 2017/1001 and (EU) 2019/1753.
Key words: geographical indications, geographical indication protection system, craft and industrial products, intellectual property rights, European Union legislation.
07/2025
Abstract. The Analytical Note presents the results of an analysis of national legislation on employment guarantees for war veterans, as well as veteran policy measures aimed at their implementation. Attention is paid to special measures to support employment that are widespread in global practice, such as quotas, workplace adaptation and specialised programmes aimed at increasing the participation of vulnerable groups in the workforce in the state economy. The conceptual aspects of state policies to promote the employment of demobilised military personnel/war veterans in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are highlighted.
Key words: war veteran, demobilised military personnel, employment, job placement, quotas, workplace, professional adaptation, veteran policy strategy.
07/2025
Abstract. The policy brief analyses the legislation of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and the United Kingdom on the functioning of the institutional care system for adults with disabilities and the elderly.
Key words: adults with disabilities, elderly people, disability, presumed disability, social services, social protection, social service, municipality, local self-government body, basic needs, assisted living.
04/2025
Abstract. The analytical note presents the results of the analysis of the US federal legislation on remuneration of public executive officials. It focuses on the main aspects of the General Schedule and the Executive Schedule, classification of civil servants' positions, the procedure for appointment and remuneration of civil servants. The author examines the powers of the President of the United States to form the personnel of the senior level of the federal civil service, including political appointments to senior positions in the state executive bodies.
Key words: public (civil) service, civil servant, senior executive service, position, remuneration, Executive Schedule, General Schedule.
04/2025
Abstract. The policy paper presents the results of the analysis of the legislation on remuneration of pedagogical staff providing complete general secondary education in Ukraine, the Baltic States, Poland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Attention is focused on the procedure for calculating salaries based on the weekly teaching load. The procedure for calculating allowances and special payments, in particular for performing additional functions, overtime and temporary replacement hours, working conditions, and length of service, is also mentioned.
Key words: remuneration of pedagogical workers, complete general secondary education, official salary, tariffed hours, teaching hours, qualification category, teacher.
04/2025