KYIV. July 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry of Ukraine in H1 2015 finished 80% of steps required for the implementation of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, Deputy Minister for European Integration Roman Chuprynenko has said.
“I want to inform you that 80% of the action plan to implement the agreement with the EU has been finished in H1 2015. It is out of question that this year the ministry would make all steps, and I set the task to accelerate the steps planned for 2016,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on July 10.
Chuprynenko said that the ministry is to take 18 steps to implement the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement and the ministry is the key executor of nine steps.
He said that the ministry, jointly with the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving and the European Energy Community, is making steps to implement the requirements of the EU directive on energy efficiency, which is crucial for Ukraine despite not being included in the general action plan to implement the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.
He said that the implementation of this EU directive would create a reliable legal basis to conduct energy efficiency reform in Ukraine.
“A large Ukrainian delegation will visit Vienna, the office of the European Energy Community in two weeks to work on the draft law on energy efficiency in Ukraine,” he said.
