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The Verkhovna Rada on Thursday adopted an updated law on privatization (No. 7451), which will transfer large privatization to Prozorro auctions without advisers, speed up small privatization and remove a number of problematic issues.
233 deputies voted “for” with the required minimum of 226, according to information on the parliament’s website.
“Regarding large privatization. The main thing that has changed is that we are transferring all large privatization to Prozorro. All procedures have been prescribed as it is in small privatization,” one of the main innovations was named earlier in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine and. about. Head of the State Property Fund Olga Batova.
According to her, large-scale privatization, in the form in which it was and in which it is now, has shown the inefficiency of advisers. Among the claims against them, the head of the Fund singled out the lengthy preparation of the object for privatization; duplication of transactions with potential buyers, in particular on audit; potential corruption risks of engagement by one of the potential buyers.
“The draft law proposes that the Foundation will make a virtual folder (data room) with all the information about the enterprise: all valid contracts, court cases, financial statements – we fully set out and give each potential buyer three months to do an audit on their own,” she described the proposed new procedure, the head of the SPF.
With regard to small-scale privatization, she pointed out that the law further simplifies procedures, for example, introduces an online signature of the auction protocol, shortens the entire process from the moment the auction is announced to the signing of the contract to two months, introduces the possibility in some cases to do without the AMCU, cancels the requirement to publish in newspaper “Vedomosti Privatization”.
“In addition, we have provided for a very important change that will always be in effect: so that payment for the object is made before the signing of the contract – after the auction and the signing of the protocol, but before the signing of the contract,” the head of the SPF stressed. According to her, there are several cases, especially in the auctions held at the end of February, that buyers do not want to pay, arguing that it was force majeure.
Another important norm, she called the possibility of selling objects with arrests, which will allow creditors to finally receive their funds. “We propose to re-register the ownership of the winner of Prozorro, but all arrests will remain until the new owner repays the debt,” she explained.
“The list for privatization today includes a little more than 115 enterprises. There are many more objects,” Batova said.
Ukraine plans to produce 18.5 billion cubic meters in 2022. meters of gas, which is 6.6% (1.3 billion cubic meters) less than in 2021, said Deputy Energy Minister Nikolai Kolesnik.
“Based on the volume of actual production that is today, the forecast volume for this year is approximately 18.5 billion cubic meters. This is without taking into account potential losses,” he said in Kyiv on Thursday.
Kolesnik specified that today the daily gas production in the country is 49.5 million cubic meters. m, while before the start of the war it was about 55 million cubic meters. m. At the same time, companies are not yet able to fully carry out new drilling and workover of wells, but only maintain the maintenance of the existing said fund. This is due to the use of equipment that from the air can look like a military one.
According to him, the gas consumption forecast for 2022 is about 21 billion cubic meters. The Deputy Minister clarified that this forecast is based on the consumption profile of previous years, while in the conditions of war and the resettlement of people it is difficult to say exactly what consumption will be.
As reported, natural gas production in Ukraine in 2021 amounted to 19.8 billion cubic meters. m, incl. private companies – 5 billion cubic meters. m.
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The State Emergency Service has developed recommendations on organizing shelters in the facilities of the civil protection fund for personnel and children (pupils, students) of educational institutions, the Ministry of Education and Science reports.
According to the press service of the ministry, the shelters must meet the following requirements: be located in the basement (underground) premises, on the basement or ground floor (subject to the provision of building envelopes); be located as part of the main building of the educational institution or in close proximity (up to 100 m); not be placed near large tanks containing dangerous chemical, flammable, combustible and explosive substances, water and sewer mains; should not be adversely affected by ground, surface, process or waste water; equipped with power supply, artificial lighting, water supply and sewerage systems (in the absence of water supply and sewerage facilities, they must contain separate rooms for the installation of remote tanks); do not have large openings in the outer enclosing structures, the existing openings (except for doors) provide the possibility of laying (with sandbags or soil, concrete blocks, brickwork); provided with at least two evacuation exits, one of which may be emergency (when planning a shelter in a dual-use structure or a simple shelter with a capacity of less than 50 people, one emergency exit is allowed); water and sewer mains, other main engineering communications (except for intra-house engineering networks) should not pass through the shelters; the premises do not store flammable, chemical and radiation hazardous substances, dangerous equipment that is not subject to dismantling or cannot be dismantled within 24 hours; the height of the premises of objects, in particular doorways, is at least 2 m (at least 1.8 m is allowed if it is provided for by the project documentation), and to the protruding parts of individual building structures and utilities (with the exception of doorways) – at least 1 .4 m. The width of the doorways is at least 0.9 m (not less than 0.8 m is allowed, if it is provided for by the project documentation); openings at entrances (exits) are closed with reinforced doors made of non-combustible materials (metal or wooden, upholstered with iron) or protective screens (stone, brick, reinforced concrete) to a height of at least 1.7 m; the main premises intended for sheltering the population have forced or natural ventilation; free access should be provided for people with limited mobility (for educational institutions with the presence of this category of people) or there is a technical possibility of retrofitting within 24 hours; the object must be in a satisfactory sanitary and fire-prevention condition (in accordance with the norms of fire-prevention and sanitary rules); the necessary protective properties must be provided to protect against conventional means of destruction and external ionizing radiation established for anti-radiation shelters (a dual-use structure with appropriate protective properties).
“The necessary protective properties are provided by objects with walls 2-2.5 bricks thick or from solid reinforced concrete structures (blocks, panels) with a thickness of 56 cm. The corresponding protective properties are also provided by a layer of soil 67-78 cm thick (sandbag laid) across In case building structures have a smaller thickness, it is possible to increase the protective properties by additional imposition with bags of soil or sand, installation of screens made of reinforced concrete structures (panels, blocks, etc.),” the recommendations say. It is noted that the equipment of shelters is calculated for a continuous stay of at least 48 hours, so it is necessary to provide: places for sitting (lying), you can use chairs, benches or beds available in institutions, sports mats, mats; containers with drinking water (1 person / 2 liters per day); food containers; remote tanks for tightly closed sewage (for non-sewered buildings and structures); backup artificial lighting (electric lanterns, candles, kerosene lamps) and power supply; primary fire extinguishing means (according to established standards); means of providing medical care; means of communication and notification (telephone, radio, Internet, it is recommended to install Wi-Fi devices); entrenching tools (bayonet and shovels, crowbars, axes, saws, hacksaws).
In addition, one of the requirements is to comply with the rule of at least a meter per person.
Number of dead and wounded civilians in Ukraine as a result of military actions from 24.02.2022 according to un data (per)
Data: UN
