The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has dismissed acting Head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Myroslav Prodan on his own wish and announced a tender to select the head of the authority, acting Finance Minister of Ukraine Oksana Markarova has said.
“The issue that we have already discussed for a long time is the holding of a tender for the position of the head of the State Fiscal Service. The holding of an open and transparent tender is very important for further reform, including the State Fiscal Service reform. The government today decided to start and announce the tender,” she said after a government meeting on Wednesday.
Markarova also said that Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman instructed the National Service for State Governance and the Ministry of Finance to begin procedures for holding the tender.
“To avoid conflicts of interest, the acting head of the State Fiscal Service decided to resign at his own will. The government backed this decision. Before the tender, Oleksandr Vlasov will act as head of the State Fiscal Service,” she said, adding that Vlasov headed the Phantom special unit of tax police for three years.
“The government’s steps to combat smuggling and electronic services in the State Fiscal Service will continue … One of the main tasks is the preparation of a transparent tender to select the head of the State Fiscal Service,” Vlasov said.
“I understand perfectly well that the attention of the, business and international partners of Ukraine will be attracted to the tender.. Perhaps we will see attempts to politicize the process… In order to avoid conflicts of interest and any speculation on this issue, I asked the government to appoint another acting head of the State Fiscal Service,” Prodan wrote on Facebook social network.
Germany’s Bayer chemical concern has launched a seed plant in the village of Pochuiky (Zhytomyr region) for $200 million, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has written on his Facebook page.
“Today on September 5 in Zhytomyr region, a new modern plant for the production of seeds of agricultural products of Bayer company was opened. These are 85 permanent and 220 seasonal jobs for Ukrainians. It is important that Bayer helps to solve social issues of the local community – supports the school and library, financed the construction of a new road and an outpatient clinic,” he wrote.
Poroshenko said that $200 million of investment funds were attracted for the construction of the plant.
“This is more evidence that Ukraine is an attractive country for international investment,” the president said.
Bayer is an international company specializing in life sciences, namely, health and agriculture. The company has been operating in Ukraine since 1992 in the form of Bayer LLC, is a major supplier of crop protection agents (pesticides, herbicides and fungicides) and seeds in Ukraine.
PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia by the end of this year plans to buy several thousands of freight wagons from external producers, acting Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov has said. “We have already built more than 2,000 wagons at our own plants, and in addition, 500 have been bought by outsourcing. By the end of the year we are planning to buy a few more wagons under an external contract,” Kravtsov said in an interview with Radio NV.
Asked which manufacturers wagons will be bought from, the head of the company said that it would be decided at a tender. He recalled that this year freight gondola cars were purchased from the Kriukov Car Building Works (Poltava Region) and Popasna wagon repair plant (Luhansk region).
He also recalled that this year more than 50 passenger wagons were purchased from the Kriukov Car Building Works.
“It is necessary to update a minimum of 200-300 diesel locomotives and 500-600 electric locomotives within five or seven years,” Kravtsov said.
The National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation (NCCR) has permitted free imports and turnover of 15 types of radio electronic equipment, including PCs, audio systems, mobile phones, personal electric transport and other things if they meet the requirements of the technical regulation for radio electronic equipment approved on May 24, 2017. “This decision minimizes the burden on producers thanks to a clear definition of the types of radio electronic equipment that does not need to be registered and that is considered to have a high level of compliance with the essential requirements of the radio electronic equipment technical regulations. However, this does not exempt producers, importers and other economic entities in the radio equipment supply chain in Ukraine from performing their responsibilities to provide high-quality products,” the commission said on its website.
The list of goods allowed for import into Ukraine and not requiring entering the Register of radio electronic equipment and radiating equipment includes: e-books, laptops, tablets, interactive whiteboards and accessories, desktop computers, servers; smartphones, GPS-navigators, wristwatches, smart watches, wrist GPS trackers, fitness bracelets, wireless headphones, loudspeakers, stereo headphones, active speakers, multimedia speakers, voice recorders, audio systems, home theaters, music centers, mini and micro-audio systems, car audio systems, radio receivers, home theaters with a wireless adapter, a radio module, self-balance scooters, self-balancing personal transporters, a self-balancing unicycle with a wireless adapter, radio module, and other devices.
The use of these devices in the public radio frequency bands and free flow on the territory of Ukraine is carried out in the presence of a declaration of compliance with the requirements of the radio electronic equipment technical regulations approved by Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine resolution No. 355 dated May 24, 2017.
The NCCR, at the request of Ukraine’s State Center for Radio Frequencies (UCRF), also entered information on outdoor base stations, wireless access points, Internet gateways and other similar equipment that is used for the installation of outdoor radio and radio equipment used for organization of the provision of telecommunication services with a working frequency range of 2400-2483.5 MHz and an output power of the transmitter of more than 101 mW (20.04 dBm) into the list of radio-electronic equipment prohibited for use and importation into Ukraine.
PJSC Farmak (Kyiv), among top three leaders of the pharmaceutical sector of Ukraine, plans to invest $10 million in construction of a pharmaceutical plant in Uzbekistan, the company’s press service has reported. “With a view to the export development, Farmak is considering an investment project with investment of $10 million to localize production in the Republic of Uzbekistan with the launch of production in bulk and a gradual transition to full-cycle production, with the development of technologically more complex products, in particular, radiopaque and biotechnological products,” the press service of the company said, citing Chairperson of the supervisory board Filia Zhebrovska.
At present, Farmak is fourth in sales in the pharmaceutical market of Uzbekistan, the portfolio of products sold in this country totals 120 items.
The company said that the head of the Farmak’s supervisory board and Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Ukraine Alisher Abdualiyev have already agreed on the construction of the plant.
“The new production facility of Farmak will expand the range of medicines that are produced in Uzbekistan, reduce dependence on imported production and create a basis for further expansion of the pharmaceutical cluster,” Abdualiyev said.
Farmak is a member of the Association Manufacturers of Medications of Ukraine (AMMU).
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