Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has passed at first reading bill No. 8125 on concession. A total of 240 lawmakers backed the document on Tuesday. Head of the parliamentary committee for the economic policy Andriy Ivanchuk said that the bill divides regulation of concession and other forms of public private partnership, relaxes the rules of allocating land parcels for concession projects, sets the unified rules of making decisions for all types of public private partnership, including concession. The ownership right to the facility under concession is left to the territorial community, he said.
“According to statistics, the EU has signed concession agreements for EUR 12 billion. This is a modern tool that triggers development of infrastructure,” he said, presenting the bill in parliament. Ivanchuk said that the bill requires revision for second reading, in particular, in relation to the concession tender
Citizens of Ukraine have registered the most companies in Estonia using the e-residency system – 423 companies, the head of the Tallin office of Ilyashev and Partners Vitaliy Halytskykh has said. “Ukrainians top registrations – 423 companies, while 2,131 Ukrainian citizens have received e-residency cards. Next comes Finland – 315, Germany – 311. Demand is growing,” he said in an interview to the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Some 3,444 companies have been registered using the e-residency card, while in November 2017 the number was 3,000.
“The e-residency card does not offer tax residency or the right to visit Estonia, but allows the use of all government services, including registering companies online, online banking, signing contracts electronically, serving motions online, et cetera – about 99% of all state services can be used online, and e-Residency in Estonia makes them internationally available. This has attracted Ukrainian business,” Halytskykh said.
Nestle, one of the world’s largest producers of food, will invest UAH 700 million in the reconstruction and modernization of Mivina factory in Kharkiv. Nestle CEO for Ukraine and Moldova Ansgar Bornemann and Head of Kharkiv Regional State Administration Yulia Svetlychna said this during a press briefing in Kharkiv.
“The company began preparations for the modernization of Mivina factory in 2015. The final project plan was approved in early 2018. The main goal is to develop the factory, improve working conditions and increase the competitiveness of products,” the Nestle official said.
According to him, the project will be implemented in two stages by transforming the existing logistics center into a production facility with the subsequent development of all necessary infrastructure and transferring production lines to new premises.
“Reconstruction will help not only modernize the enterprise but also improve the technology of production. Updating the recipe for Mivina products, in particular reducing fat content in products, will allow meeting the criteria for assessing the nutrition foundation of Nestle products, which are based on dietary recommendations of the World Health Organization,” Bornemann noted. The head of the Kharkiv administration, in turn, reported that almost half of the products produced at the Kharkiv factory are exported to 17 countries in Europe and the world.
The company plans to complete all the stages of reconstruction and commission the updated enterprises by 2021.
