The Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine included Rivne industrial park (Rivne region) with an area of 125.13 hectares, initiated by the Rivne regional state administration, in the register of industrial parks on February 1, 2021.
According to the information on the ministry’s website on Friday, the planned term of operation of the park, located on the territory of Mala Liubasha rural council of Kostopil district, is 40 years. It is planned to create 1,750 jobs.
Priority types of economic activity in the industrial park will be: woodworking and furniture industry; production of construction and heat-insulating materials; mechanical engineering; recycling of secondary resources.
According to a posting on the website of the Rivne Regional State Administration, the industrial park has already won the Golden Site 2020 contest, implemented by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency.
The press service of the ministry said that today, 46 parks are already included in the register of industrial parks, including 23, which selected management companies, and eight, which involved participants (10 participants in total).
In addition, industrial parks, which are not included in the specified register, are being created and are functioning, including four parks created before the adoption of the law of Ukraine on industrial parks.
Health Minister of Ukraine Maksym Stepanov told President Volodymyr Zelensky that today Ukraine received confirmation for the supply of 12 million doses of vaccines produced by AstraZeneca and Novavax, the presidential press service said.
“The sooner we receive vaccines, the faster we will overcome pandemics in Ukraine. I know that the Cabinet of Ministers is carefully working on the development of a website that will help Ukrainians to easily and conveniently register for vaccination. Like every Ukrainian, I look forward to the start of the vaccination process. Some 12 million doses is a good signal from our partners, and this will be enough to ensure vaccinations within the first months after the start of supplies,” Zelensky said.
Deliveries will take place from February 2021.
Thus, during a meeting with the president, Stepanov said an agreement had been reached on the supply of vaccines developed with the participation of AstraZeneca (Great Britain and Oxford University) and Novavax (the United States), which are produced under license agreements at the facilities of Serum Institute (India).
The confirmation received will be implemented through a contract between the Serum Institute and Crown Agents.
In October-December 2020, the Business Ombudsman Council (BOC) received 451 complaints on malpractice of state officials, which is 9% more than in the same period of 2019 and 3% more than in July-September 2020, the BOC reported on Thursday.
According to a Thursday press release, businesses complained the most about actions of tax authorities (64%), law enforcement bodies (12%), state regulators (7%), customs and local government authorities (7%).
“Among the most common tax problems for businesses were tax invoice suspension (177 complaints) consisting of three types of issues: classical tax invoice suspension (100 complaints), inclusion of entrepreneurs in “risky” taxpayers’ lists (29 complaints) and non-enforcement of judgments on tax invoice registration (48 complaints),” the BOC said.
At the same time, actions of law enforcement bodies (56) were one of the reasons for the increase in the number of business complaints in the reporting quarter. The number of business complaints against the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Q4 2020 was the largest in the last ten quarters, the BOC said.
“In particular, entrepreneurs complained more about procedural abuses of the National Police and the State Security Service of Ukraine,” the BOC said.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 08/02/21
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of February 8
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
Polish Getin Holding S.A. (Wroclaw) on February 5 signed an agreement with a Ukrainian buyer for the sale of 100% of the shares of subsidiary Idea Bank (Lviv) and 100% of the shares of New Finance Service (Kyiv), Getin Holding S.A. has said.
According to a report on biznes.pap.pl, the parties plan to close the potential deal by September 30, 2021.
Before that the buyer will conduct due diligence the companies, and after a positive result of the due diligence the parties will proceed to agree on the terms of the potential transaction.
Getin Holding also reports that the company granted the buyer exclusive rights for negotiations until April 30, 2021.
Idea Bank (formerly Plus Bank) was founded in 1989. As of January 1, 2020, its sole shareholder was the financial group Getin Holding S.A. (Poland).
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of October 1, 2020, Idea Bank ranked 24th among 74 operating banks in terms of total assets (UAH 8.057 billion).
