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Introduction

In 2019, NGO Internews-Ukraine in partnership with the leading Ukrainian media lawyers launched a project for development of the Internet Regulation Index (hereinafter — the Index). This Index was conceived as a tool for monitoring the quality of suggested or approved normative documents and/or other regulatory initiatives in Ukraine influencing the development of the online sphere, i. e. free Internet in Ukraine. The Internet Regulation Index is aimed at assessing potential negative or positive impacts of regulatory initiations through the prism of responses of experts who took part in the study. With publication of the study’s results, the next stage is implemented — further advocacy effort for protection of free Internet in Ukraine by civil society and the technical community through interaction with government stakeholders. In 2020, NGO Internews-Ukraine carried out the first two studies using the Index methodology. The researchers analyzed Draft Law № 2692 On Media (results) and the disinformation initiative (results), which never became a draft law and was relinquished as a result of public pressure. Later, in 2021, the researchers chose legislative initiatives № 3196‑д, the Draft Law On Amending the Law of Ukraine on the Security Service of Ukraine concerning improvement of the organizational and legal principles of organization of the work of the Security Service of Ukraine (short title — the Draft Law on Security Service) (results), as well as the long‑awaited draft law № 5628 On Personal Data Protection (results).