Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

UKRAINE’S CUSTOMS TO MAKE PUBLIC ALL DATA NOT VIOLATING COMMERCIAL SECRETS – NEFYODOV

The State Customs Service (Derzhmytsluzhba) will make public all information that does not violate commercial secrets, head of the customs Maksym Nefyodov said during the Open Data Forum in Kyiv on Friday.
“We are submitting a bill to open anonymized data at the customs. We want to open all the information without violating, of course, commercial secrets,” he said.
According to Nefyodov, the customs will complete an IT audit by the end of the year and prepare a digital transformation strategy.
“Now we are at the stage of an IT audit. The audit will be fully completed before the end of the year. By this time, we will have a digital transformation strategy. For the customs, almost everything is connected with the processing of information,” Nefyodov said.
As reported, earlier, Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk expressed his confidence in new chief of the State Customs Service Maksym Nefyodov. Honcharuk said it is possible to defeat smuggling before the end of 2019.

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UKRAINIAN SOLAR CHERNOBYL LLC GETS PRESTIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD

The most prestigious Energy Globe Award 2019 has found its winners. This year the National ENERGY GLOBE Award Ukraine 2019 goes to Solar Chernobyl LLC for the implementation of the project SOLAR CHERNOBYL – 1 MWp SPP. The main idea of this ambitious project is to turn the radioactive contaminated area into a useful area of green energy production.
The Solar Chornobyl site is 100 meters from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant reactor. This is the first solar station located in the Chernobyl zone and it is supposed to have a positive impact on the economic and ecological situation in Chernobyl. From July 01, 2018, for the first time in 18 years, the first kilowatts from Chernobyl began to flow into the united power grid of Ukraine. At present, the power plant has a capacity of 1 MW.
The ENERGY GLOBE Award was founded in 1999 by the Austrian energy pioneer Wolfgang Neumann and is one of today’s most prestigious environmental awards. It is annually conferred by the Energy Globe Foundation to innovative projects offering practical solutions on environmental issues and developing sustainable initiatives for a sustainable future. Participants from 180 countries present projects from around the world, ranging from small and simple initiatives to extremely large-scale ideas, aimed at saving resources, improving air and water quality, energy efficiency and using of renewable energy.
Advantage Austria congratulates the winners on the successful implementation of the another project and on this reputable award.
https://www.advantageaustria.org/ua/oesterreich-in-ukraine/news/lokal/Energy_Globe_Award.en.html

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RETAIL TRADE IN UKRAINE CONTINUES GROWING – STATISTICS

Retail trade in Ukraine (legal entities and individual entrepreneurs) in January-August 2019 increased by 9.9% in comparable prices compared with January-August 2018, the State Statistics Service said on Friday. In August 2019 alone, retail trade turnover grew by 3.4% compared with the previous month and by 6.7% year-over-year (August 2019 to August 2018).
The largest growth in retail turnover in January-August 2019 compared to the same period in 2018 was recorded in Vinnitsa region (by 18.2%), Ternopol region (by 17.1%), Kyiv region (by 16%), Cherkasy region (by 14.2%), Luhansk region (by 13.7%), Odesa region (by 13.3%), Dnipropetrovsk region (by 13%), Khmelnitsky region (by 11.1%), Donetsk region (by 10.5%), Rivne region (by 10.3%), and the city of Kyiv (by 14.5%).
The State Statistics Service says that its report does not include data from the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and occupied districts in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

OFFICIAL RATES OF BANKING METALS FROM NATIONAL BANK AS OF SEPTEMBER 23

Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of September 23

One troy ounce=31.10 grams

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NATIONAL BANK OF UKRAINE’S OFFICIAL RATES AS OF 23/09/19

National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 23/09/19

Source: National Bank of Ukraine

DEPOSIT GUARANTEE FUND COMPLETING LIQUIDATION OF BANK STAROKYIVSKY

The Individuals’ Deposit Guarantee Fund is completing the liquidation of Bank Starokyivsky (Kyiv), according to the website of the fund.

According to the report, on September 17, the liquidator of Bank Starokyivsky submitted documents to the state registrar of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and public organizations for state registration of the bank’s termination as a legal entity in the unified state register of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and public organizations.

The fund also announced the completion of payment of guaranteed amounts of compensation to the bank’s depositors.

As reported, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in September 2014 decided to liquidate Bank Starokyivsky.

Bank Starokyivsky Bank was founded in 1991.

Bank Starokyivsky ranked 148th among 173 banks operating in the country on July 1, 2014 in terms of total assets (UAH 413.806 million), according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

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