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5) the formation and use of insurance funds on the basis of solidarity and
               subsidies;
                      6) differentiation of the amount of insurance rates (payment) depending on the
               insurance experience;

                      7) differentiation of the insurance rates (payment) taking into account the
               conditions and state of labor safety, occupational injuries and occupational diseases
               in each enterprise;
                      8) economic interest of insurance subjects in improving labor conditions and
               safety;
                      9) targeted use of social insurance funds;
                      10) the responsibility of employers and the Fund for the realization of the right
               of the insured person to financial support and social services in accordance with this
               Law.


                      Other Laws of Ukraine Concerning Labor Protection Issues:
                           The Law of Ukraine "Fundamentals of the Legislation of Ukraine on
               Health Care";
                           The Law of Ukraine "On Environmental Protection";
                           The Law of Ukraine "On Use of Nuclear Power and Radiation Safety";
                           The Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring Sanitary and Epidemic Safety of the
               Population”;
                           Code of Civil Protection of Ukraine and others.


                      1) Basic labour protection regulatory legal acts also comprise "Fundamentals
               of the Legislation of Ukraine on Health Care"  governing social relations in this
               field aimed at ensuring harmonic development of physical and mental potential, high
               working efficiency and long-standing active life of citizens; elimination of factors
               negatively   influencing   people’s   health;   prevention   and   mitigation   of   morbidity,
               invalidity and mortality as well as improvement of heredity.
                      The legal act "Fundamentals of the Legislation of Ukraine on Health Care"
               stipulates for unified sanitary and hygienic requirements applicable to managing
               production and other processes involving human labour as well as to the quality of
               machinery, equipment, buildings and other facilities with the potential to affect
               human health.
                      Besides, the document stipulates for compulsory health examination of workers
               of certain categories including people working under harmful and hazardous labour
               conditions; as well as provides a legal basis for the medical and social examination of
               disability cases.


                      2) The Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Sanitary and Epidemic Safety of the
               Population”  stipulates necessity of hygienic regulations and state registration of
               hazardous and harmful factors of physical, chemical and biological nature present in
               the  environment   of   human   vital   activity;   establishes   requirements   to   design,
               development, construction, manufacture and use of new means of production and
               technologies; determines hygienic requirements to both atmospheric air in inhabited





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