Order No. 285 on the package adoption of CEN-CENELEC European normative documents in Ukraine was signed by Oleg Shvydky, head of the national standards body, the Economy Ministry press service said Thursday.
“The adoption and implementation of European standards in the Ukrainian economy will allow faster ratification of the ACAA Agreement, will open new opportunities and prospects for Ukrainian business,” the statement said.
As it was specified in the press-service, national standardization body of Ukraine with support of Ministry of economy carried out work with European experts of CEN-CENELEC on actualization of base of European standards and studying of legal bases, what provided an opportunity of package adoption of European standards in Ukraine as national.
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) European Committee for Standardization in Electrotechnics (CENELEC) together form a European system of technical standardization. Standards agreed by these agencies are regularly adopted in many countries outside Europe that follow European technical standards.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed laws No. 8196/8197 on assistance in restoring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which, in particular, cancel VAT and customs duties on imports of generators and other power equipment, as well as Starlink satellite systems for the period until May 2023.
As people’s deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak (faction “Voice”) wrote in his Telegram channel, the laws will come into force three days after publication, according to his calculations, January 2-3, 2023.
“Of the main innovations: the importation of generators, other equipment, Starlink without duty and VAT is introduced at the legislative level. Including for individuals. The norm will be valid until May 2023,” – wrote Zheleznyak.
As it was reported, the Verkhovna Rada passed the bills № 8196/8197 in the second reading on December 13.
The bills also exempt from VAT and duties on importation of equipment within the framework of technical assistance, mail and express consignments, and provide the opportunity to store fuel without a license in the amount of up to 2,000 liters, and more than this volume on the conditions of notification to the tax authorities on the declarative principle.
As previously reported by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Daniel Hetmantsev, the purpose of the above bills is to introduce short-term incentive tax and customs incentives for the restoration of energy infrastructure.
Ukrainian public catering establishments in December 2022 recorded an increase in the average check by an average of one third compared to last year, follows from research of the Poster company.
According to it, the growth of the average check is observed in all types of businesses. Thus, the greatest increase was observed in fast food establishments – by 49%, up to 158 UAH and in bakeries – by 45%, up to 66 UAH. The average bill grew also in bars – by 27%, to 416 UAH, in coffee houses – by 25%, to 75 UAH, in restaurants – by 22%, to 550 UAH, in hookah houses – by 21%, to 432 UAH, in cafes – by 19%, to 226 UAH.
The greatest growth of proceeds in the pre-holiday period of December 19-25 was shown by fast-food and coffee houses – by 58% and 48% respectively. Bakeries increased the revenues by 15%, cafes – by 10%, bars – by 5%, and restaurants – by 2%. At the same time, hookah houses decreased their revenues by 2% compared to last year, the Poster noted.
According to his data, fast food establishments, bakeries and coffee shops returned to the pre-war levels of revenue in late May, while restaurants, bars and hookah houses were able to reach February values only by November.
That said, the revenue growth is mostly due to inflation, Poster respondents said.
“From February to May, we were down 50%. In May, when there was a big influx of movers, we exceeded the numbers by 20%. Then we got back up to last year’s numbers. However, revenue increased because of inflation, so we stopped paying attention to that. We focus only on the number of guests per month and the average bill “- a study cited in the comments of co-owners of the” Marevo “and Late Breakfast Wine & Pizza Club Artem Yatsenko and Vasily Budurovich.
At the same time, after the first massive strikes of the Russian Federation on the Ukrainian critical infrastructure in October, the revenue figures of the capital’s establishments dropped significantly.
“Since most restaurants of the chain are located in shopping malls, there is no possibility to connect generators to continue working, and accordingly sales occur only during hours with light, but even during these hours demand fell,” the Poster quotes CEO of 1708 pizza di Napoli Vladimir Gnatiuk.
Poster research is based on the sales of 7 thousand catering establishments in Ukraine.
JSC “DGM Group” (Dnipro), a producer of equipment for metallurgy, will pay out dividends for 2021 in the amount of 100 thousand UAH per share (par value UAH 95.01 thousand), having forwarded for this purpose 10 million UAH from the net profit.
According to the announcement on the web-site of the company, the decision was taken by the general meeting of shareholders on December 26. The dividends will be paid from January 19 to June 26, 2023.
According to the NCSSM for the third quarter of 2018, 56% of shares of JSC “DGM Group” belongs to Svetlana Alymova, 44% – Vasily Polishkevich. Gennady Alymov, the company’s director, does not own any shares.
There is no information on the amount of net profit received in 2021 on the company’s website and in the NCSSM’s disclosure system.
A year earlier, according to the agenda of the general meeting of shareholders for 2020, the net profit was 32.12 mln hryvnia, with 10 mln hryvnia planned for dividends, 9.5 mln hryvnia for the increase of the registered capital by increasing the share par value from 10 to 95.01 and 13.6 mln hryvnia planned to be left undistributed.
DGM Group specializes in design and manufacture of equipment for metallurgy industry (blast furnace, ferroalloy, sintering equipment, and hydraulic drives).
Among the foreign customers are Indian TATA Steel and TATA Metaliks, Essar Steel, ArcelorMittal Works in Ukraine and Mexico, Metso:Outotec (Finland), Rockwool (Denmark), Moldavian Steel Plant, TNK Kazchrome (Kazakhstan), as well as companies in Turkey, Norway, Germany, USA and Cyprus.
In particular, according to the company’s website, it has recently completed hot tests of a set of equipment for a ferroalloy furnace at Sarda Metals and Alloys in India. The project was launched in May 2021 – two sets of stationary opening and closing machines were made to service the new furnace.
According to the company’s last disclosed statements, its net income in 2020 was UAH 165.75 million.
Metinvest’s subsidiary Central Mining and Processing Integrated Works, located in Krivoy Rog, Dnipropetrovsk Region, reduced the output of its marketable pellets by about 3% year-on-year to 2 million tons in January-November this year.
“Owing to coordinated actions, the combine’s team achieved 100% of production and processing targets. In the first 11 months of this year alone, miners mined more than 9 million tons of crude ore, concentrators produced more than 3 million tons of concentrate, and pelletizers produced nearly 2 million tons of high quality pellets,” the company says.
At the same time, it is said that this year was a period of trials, which the company’s team managed to cope with with with dignity. Despite the war, logistical problems and economic challenges, the company remains one of the best in Ukraine’s mining industry.
Thus, in 2022, TsGOK continued producing high-quality products – concentrate with iron content of 70% and above, and pellets with iron content of 67.5%. This influenced the fact that the company remained with orders in a difficult period and was able to work, fulfilling its obligations to customers and providing jobs for its employees.
Central Mining and Processing Plant’s staff continues to upgrade the production facilities in the plant’s shops. Specialists have overhauled pelletizing plant equipment and roasting machine OK-324. At the crushing plant, one of the largest units – the coarse crusher – and the conveyor transport were overhauled. The renewed equipment is ready to accept up to 4.5 million additional tons of iron ore.
In order to support the heavy-weight transport in the mining and transport shops of the combine during the year the heavy-weight dump trucks were repaired by their own hands. To ensure safe and efficient operation of railway transport, tracks were repaired.
This year the humanitarian mission was added to the industrial tasks of the Central Mining and Processing Division. In March the humanitarian hub started its work at the Works within the framework of the project “Saving Lives”, implemented by Metinvest Group in coordination with Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation. During this time the workers-volunteers of the Works have put together 135 thousand food packages for the IDPs, the representatives of the privileged categories, the families of the mobilized and the veterans of the Works.
An active volunteer movement is carried out by the TsGOK’s youth, who collect humanitarian aid, support in the search of accommodation, render targeted assistance to the labour veterans and pensioners of the enterprise and hold entertainment events for children from the families of internally displaced persons.
“The staff of the Central Mining and Processing Plant is an example of indestructibility and reliability. This year our specialists have shown that they can support each other and our common cause. Today we understand how important the work of the enterprise is for the economy of Ukraine and how important it is to be human and friendly outside the production. Our team is a big family where the workers are heroes in their place. I’m grateful to each specialist for his work in this difficult time and I am sure that the new year of the plant will be productive”, – General Director of Central Mining Dmitry Shevchik is convinced, who is quoted by the press service.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, in 11M22 Central Mining decreased the output of marketable pellets by 0.4% YoY to 2.054 million tons and iron ore concentrate by 2.8% to 4.376 million tons.
Central Mining is one of the five largest mining producers in Ukraine. It specializes in the mining and production of iron ore raw materials – concentrates and pellets.
Central Mining is part of Metinvest Group, whose major shareholders are System Capital Management (SKM, Donetsk) (71.24%) and Smart-Holding Group (23.76%).
The management company of the Metinvest group is Metinvest Holding LLC.
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