Imports of electric cars to Ukraine in January-November 2017 grew to 2,676, while in 2016 a total of 2,274 cars were imported to the country, which is 13% less than the current figure, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine has said on its website.
In January-November 2017, UAH 115.6 million of customs payments were paid to the budget, whereas in 2016 this figure was UAH 82.4 million. In particular, in January-November 2017, excise tax on the import of electric vehicles reached UAH 8.4 million against UAH 7 million in 2016, and UAH 107.2 million of VAT against UAH 75.4 million in 2016, the authority said.
The fiscal service also recalled that the import of electric vehicles since 2016 has been exempted from import duty, and from January 1, 2018, the parliament proposed to exempt operations for electric vehicles from VAT and excise tax. However, the president has not yet signed the amendments to the Tax Code adopted at second reading (bill No. 6776-d).
It is planned that the requirement will work throughout 2018, the fiscal service said. If the customs payments were annulled, importers will save more than 20% of the cost.
“For example, if now, when importing a used electric car Nissan Leaf made in 2016, registered by the State Fiscal Service at a cost of $5,600, the importer paid more than UAH 34,300. From the new year importers will save more than 20% of the funds due to the absence of customs payments. As for the new Tesla S, the minimum customs value of which is $103,600, now it is necessary to pay almost UAH 566,500 of customs payments,” the authority said.
Darnytsia wagon repair plant (Kyiv), a branch of public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia, has annulled nine tenders to buy 2,000 drop bottom gondola cars of general use at the expected price of around UAH 1.2 million (VAT included) per car.
According to information on the ProZorro e-procurement portal, the tenders were annulled, as less than two bids were submitted.
Before the opening of bids some amendments were made to the tender documents under a request of potential buyers.
Two bids were submitted only for 250 gondola cars for UAH 299.94 million by Kriukov Car Building Works and Verkhniodniprovsky engineering plant, which also offers cars manufactured by Kriukov Car Building Works. The decision to allow the bidders to participate in the tender will be made.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) plans a new five-year project to support reforms in the Ukrainian energy sector with the total cost of up to $90 million, a member of the parliamentary committee for fuel and energy complex, Olha Belkova, has said.
“The project is being finalized and executors are being selected by the U.S. government. The interest, support and desire to cooperate are in our favor,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
She said that the new project would focus on the introduction of competition on energy markets, assistance to municipal authorities, search for new tools of stimulating renewable energy, cyber security of the energy sector, establishment of the energy market regulator, transparency of market information, search for new models to manage the gas transport system (GTS) and Ukraine’s integration into the EU markets.
The press service of the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation said that the European Commission launches new three-year project aimed at enhancing the possibilities of the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation to regulate nuclear operations, licensing and analyze severe accidents for nuclear reactors. The cost of the project is over EUR 5.5 million.
Biofarma pharmaceutical company seeks to launch a blood plasma fractionator plant in July 2018, Biofarma President Kostiantyn Yefymenko has written on his Facebook page.
“In December, we will receive separators from the German company GEA Westfalia, in February – the bioreactor of the Italian company Olsen, chromatographic complexes and ultrafiltration units from the world’s leading companies such as General Electric, the Marchesini bottling line and in July we are opening a modern fractionator plant,” he said.
The projected capacity of the fractionator, in the construction of which $ 35 million was invested, will amount to 500 tonnes of blood plasma.
“We have a clear goal and plan to become the world’s leader in deliveries to the market. We have the ambition of being among the seven largest global producers of blood plasma,” Yefymenko said.
Biofarma is among the ten largest Ukrainian manufacturers of medical products. It produces more than 20 immunobiological drugs from donor blood.
KYIV. Dec 14 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) has allowed BC Region LLC (Kyiv), controlled by Dragon Capital, to acquire the assets of RM Logistic LLC (Bucha, Kyiv region) in the form of an integrated property complex.
According to the data of the single state register, RM Logistic was registered at 5 Zhelezniaka Street in Bucha, while the Terminal Bucha logistics complex with an area of 32,000 square meters operates at the same address.
According to the state register, the owner of 100% in the charter capital of BC Region is Dragon Capital Consulting (Kyiv), the ultimate beneficiary of which is a Czech citizen, the owner of one of the largest investment companies of Ukraine, Dragon Capital, Tomas Fiala.
At the same time, according to the State Court Rulings Register, Bucha City Council in February 2017 applied to the Kyiv Economic Court with a lawsuit against RM Logistics with the demand to sign an agreement on share participation in the city’s infrastructure.
The Kyiv Economic Court by its decision of June 7, 2017 satisfied the claim of Bucha City Council and obliged RM Logistic to pay UAH 4.2 million of share participation to the city.
RM Logistic LLC was established in 2008. It is engaged in leasing and operation of real estate.
KYIV. Dec 14 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) would provide a EUR 150 million loan for the electrification of 253 km railway line Dolynska-Mykolaiv-Kolosivka, in south Ukraine.
EBRD Senior Adviser Anton Usov told Interfax-Ukraine that the EBRD board made the decision at a meeting on December 13.
The railway line will be connected to the high voltage grid and a second track on single track sections of the line will be installed.
“The project aims to increase the efficiency of the railway operations and the capacity for port hinterland traffic in Odesa region,” the bank said.
The Borrower is Ukrzaliznytsia, a vertically-integrated railway company fully owned by the government of Ukraine.
According to a posting on the bank’s website, the senior loan of up to EUR 150 million consists of tranche 1: up to EUR 124.5 million for the electrification of Dolynska-Mykolaiv railway line (148 km), double tracking of the single-track sections on the line, and construction of a high voltage line; and tranche 2: up to EUR 25.5 million for the electrification of Mykolaiv-Kolosivka railway line (105 km).
The total cost of the project is up to EUR 367.9 million.
As reported, the European Investment Bank (EIB) on November 23, 2016 approved the EUR 150 million loan for the implementation of this project. Ukrzaliznytsia will also use own contribution and grant funding of the technical cooperation assignments.
