חוק התכנון והבנייה (תיקון מס' 106), התשע"ו-2016Law of Planning and Building (Amendment No. 106), 2016 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Planning and Building Law (Amendment No. 106), 2016 (hereinafter - the Law), was passed in second and third reading on 28 March 2016. The Law is intended to address the planning aspect of the privatization process of Israel Military Industries Ltd., which is currently a government company and has for some time been undergoing a privatization process. The Law seeks to prevent a situation in which, upon privatization of the company, the facilities that served it would become illegal facilities, due to the fact that they were established as security facilities under Chapter 6 of the Planning and Building Law, 1965 (hereinafter - the Planning and Building Law), and upon completion of the privatization would cease to be considered as such facilities. The Law is also intended to enable the purchaser of the company to make changes to these facilities until plans regarding them are approved under the Planning and Building Law. The Law provides that for a transition period, the existing facilities of the privatized company shall continue to be regarded as security facilities as stated in Chapter 6 of the Planning and Building Law, with respect to four sites detailed in the Schedule to the Law. This is on condition that within one year of the privatization date, the Committee for Security Facilities approves an existing-conditions specification for the facilities, which shall include the marking of their boundaries, a description of the existing structures within them, the main permitted land uses within them, and the total built-up area within their bounds. The Law further provides that during the transition period, the provisions of Section 172(2) of the Planning and Building Law shall apply to the facilities, which allows construction in an existing facility without obtaining a permit or under a permit from the Committee for Security Facilities, subject to conditions detailed in the Law and within a limited and defined scope. In addition, the Law provides that if a plan for a facility is not deposited within seven years of the privatization date, the transition period regarding it shall end; however, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Defense may extend this period by two additional periods of two years each. The transition period shall also end if a plan for the facility is not approved within four years of the deposit date.

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What was said in the plenum

The law deals with the planning regulation of Israel Military Industries facilities ahead of and after its privatization, so that structures built as security facilities without standard building permits do not become "illegal" upon transition to private ownership. The bill sets defined transition periods (with a limited possibility of extension) during which the facilities will still be considered security facilities for purposes of planning and building laws, until the completion of approval of regular master plans for the areas. The discussion focused mainly on the question of whether it is justified to extend the planning-security exemption to bodies that have undergone privatization and are not part of the defense establishment, alongside a separate and unrelated discussion on building policy in peripheral communities in the Negev.

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An automatic summary of the plenum transcripts: the debate on the bill at every reading it was voted on. Arguments are given as the speakers made them; this is not an assessment. The list of speakers comes from the transcript, without a model. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2

Reservations to the second reading

2 reservations were filed: proposed changes to the text the committee brought to the second and third reading.

The reservations seek to condition the date of privatization on the approval of a law and to apply an exemption from the supervisory provisions regarding facilities defined as security-related.

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By faction

• Zionist Union opposition · 2 reservations · 24 members

A joint reservation counts for every faction whose members filed it.

Asked to speak: Zehava Galon (Meretz), Ilan Gilon (Meretz), Esawi Frej (Meretz), Michal Rozin (Meretz), Tamar Zandberg (Meretz)

Proposers and reservation numbers are extracted automatically from the committee version, and the count is checked against the numbers printed in it. The descriptions are an automatic summary. Committee version for the second and third reading (PDF)