The Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday amended resolution No. 374 dated May 26, 2005 on the approval of the rules of the public registration of medicines.
According to the document posted on the government’s website, the government improved the rules of the public registration or re-registration of medicines, in particular, the rules of providing access to the results of their clinical trials and obliged the Health Ministry to publish all the results of the nonclinical and clinical trials for medicines.
In addition, the government extended the registration certificates of medicines to be procured by international organizations using national budget funds, and canceled the mandatory provision of a GMP document for re-registration.
These changes will ensure free access to information on the medicine and eliminate the risks associated with disruptions in medicine supplies due to the delay of the public registration caused by the updating of the GMP certificates.
Ryanair, the largest low cost airline in Europe, from October 29, 2019 will launch direct flights from Kyiv to Valencia, Spain.
According to the booking system of the airline, the Kyiv-Valencia flights will be serviced twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays with departure from Kyiv at 11:55 and from Valencia at 06:15.
Tickets are available in the booking system. The cost of one way ticket starts from EUR 66.30.
Valencia will be the 27th destination of Ryanair from Kyiv and the third city in Spain.
KSG Agro in 2019 will double the production capacity for pellets from agricultural raw materials, to 2,000 tonnes, the press service of the agroholding has reported.
“Currently, the productivity of the workshop [Dnipropetrovsk region] is 5 tonnes of fuel pellets per shift. After upgrading the production line, a capacity of 10 tonnes per shift [about 2,000 tonnes per year] will be achieved,” the company said in a press release.
According to KSG Agro, work on the modernization of the plant will be completed by the beginning of the heating season of 2019-2020.
“The raw material for pellet production is our own waste from crop production, mainly sunflower. The production volume covers the needs of biofuel boilers served by the holding,” Serhiy Kasyanov, the chairman of the board of KSG Agro, said.
KSG Agro in 2017-2018 installed nine biofuel boiler houses with a total capacity of 8.35 MW, which produce more than 1,000 Gcal of heat per heating season (160 days).
Leroy Merlin Ukraine LLC (Kyiv), developing the DIY hypermarket chain of the French brand Leroy Merlin, on April 4 will open a new hypermarket in Odesa, which will be the fifth hypermarket in the chain and the first regional hypermarket.
“Leroy Merlin is actively expanding in Ukraine. We are opening the first regional store in Odesa, which will be the fifth in Ukraine. I am confident that the new hypermarket will play a big role in improving the lives of people here in Odesa, thanks to our low prices every day, product range, and attitude towards customers,” the press service said, citing Director General of Leroy Merlin Ukraine Cedric Brosset.
He also said that the company plans to open a new store in Kyiv and further develop in Ukraine.
According to the press service, the new hypermarket with an area of 12,700 square meters (retail – 8,600 square meters) is located in the Riviera shopping and entertainment center at 1, Pivdenna Doroha Street.
The infrastructure of the hypermarket includes a pavilion of 600 square meters with goods for the garden, as well as a parking area for 183 cars.
According to the press service, the new hypermarket has created more than 100 jobs.
Investment in the project amounted to UAH 50 million.
Leroy Merlin Ukraine LLC was registered in 2008. As of March 27, 2019, the company had four Leroy Merlin stores in Kyiv and one in Odesa.
The State Statistics Service of Ukraine has confirmed grain harvest in 2018 at 70 million tonnes, the press service of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine has reported.
“The final report of the State Statistics Service on harvest in 2018 confirmed overcoming the historic for Ukraine grain production in weight after threshing – 70.057 million tonnes with a yield of 4.74 tonnes per hectare. In addition, the gross harvesting of corn, soybean and sunflower and the yield of sugar beet were the highest in the history,” Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Volodymyr Topchiy said.
In particular, Ukraine harvested 24.6 million tonnes of wheat with a yield of 3.73 tonnes per hectare, 35.8 million tonnes of corn with a yield of 7.84 tonnes per hectare, 4.5 million tonnes of soybeans with a yield of 2.58 tonnes per hectare, and 14.2 million tonnes of sunflower with a yield of 2.3 tonnes per hectare.
As reported, Ukraine since the beginning of the 2018/2019 agricultural year (July-June) as of March 20, 2019 exported 35.605 million tonnes of grain and leguminous plants, which is 20.8% more than on the same date of the previous agri-year.
According to the ministry, grain exports in 2018/2019 agri-year are projected to be 49 million tonnes (in 2017/2018 agri-year it was 39.4 million to tonnes).
The Frenchsportswear brand Decathlon, part of the Auchan Group, on March 23, 2019 opened its first store in Kyiv and plans to focus on expansion in this city in the coming two years.
“We have a plan, but it is still variable. This year we may open another store in Kyiv. Next year, new stores will also be in Kyiv. In 2021, the Decathlon brand will go beyond the city to Odesa, Lviv and possibly other major cities,” CEO at Decathlon Ukraine Florent Guieu told Interfax-Ukraine during the opening of the first store on Saturday (March 23).
The first outlet of the sports brand is located in the first line of Retail Park Petrivka. Its area is 2,500 square meters. The construction of the store lasted four months, the volume of investments amounted to EUR 1 million.
In addition, on the eve of the opening of the bricks-and-mortar store, Decathlon launched an online store. Delivery is available in all regions of Ukraine.
“Our main goal today is to open the first Decathlon store in Kyiv. First, we will learn more about the preferences of Ukrainians. Based on this knowledge, we will be able to think about opening a store in another city. Our dream is to have at least one store in each region,” the company said in a press release, citing Guieu.
According to him, the format of Decathlon stores will be 2,000-3,000 square meters, but the company may be testing the shops of a smaller format.
“It is hard to say how many we can open stores in Ukraine in general. For example, in Romania it took 10 years to open 25 stores, and now they are the leader in the local market. In Poland, in 15 years, 60 stores have opened and there Decathlon also occupies the leading position. It is not yet known how much and how quickly we will open stores in Ukraine, as this will directly depend on demand,” Guieu said.
The first Decathlon store was opened in 1976 in France. Currently, the brand has more than 1,500 stores in 56 countries. 99% of products in chain stores are goods of their own brands.
