Turkey has allocated Ukraine the last package of 1 thousand licenses for transportation to / from third countries in accordance with the agreement reached at the end of 2023, said the Deputy Minister of development of communities, territories and infrastructure Sergiy Derkach.
“Plus 1 thousand permits from Turkey for transportation to/from third countries. Ukrainian carriers can continue to perform transportation to / from third countries with Turkey. The corresponding forms of permits are already in “Ukrtransbezpek” and are available for ordering,” Derkach wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
According to him, the permits were issued in accordance with the agreement that was reached at the end of 2023, which will allow to close the need before the end of the year.”
“I will remind you that earlier this year, for the first time since 2018, we managed to agree with Turkey to increase the number of such permits by 40% – up to 3,500,” Derkach wrote, indicating that the market has already used 2,500 permits.
The Deputy Minister recalled that bilateral and transit traffic between Ukraine and Turkey do not require permits, as freight traffic between the countries is liberalized. “Visa-free” will be valid at least until the end of martial law.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, during the opening of the Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit in Dubrovnik, assured continued support for Ukraine, which is suffering from Russian aggression.
“Today I want to focus on three points. The first is Croatia’s continued assistance to Ukraine, the second is the relations of Southeast European countries with Ukraine, and the third is why Ukraine, which is suffering from Russian aggression, matters to the world and how we behave in the international community,” he said during his opening remarks at the Ukraine – Southeast Europe summit in Dubrovnik on Wednesday.
Prime Minister pointed out that the total amount of aid to Croatia since February 2022 amounted to about 300 million euros. In addition, Croatia has received about 30 thousand Ukrainian refugees, as well as Ukrainian wounded soldiers, who are being rehabilitated in centers for veterans and specialized hospitals.
“In this context, President Zelenski and I signed an agreement on long-term cooperation and support between Croatia and Ukraine, which lays the foundation for our relations for many years to come, and its content is in line with what we believe we can best contribute,” Plenkovic emphasized.
According to him, “it is a natural reflex of Croatia, as a country that in the past survived aggression and war with much less international assistance, to stand today next to a country that defends the same values of freedom, democracy and peace.”
“We believe this is the right thing to do, and I am proud that today we are all gathered to reaffirm our joint support for Ukraine,” Plenkovic said.
The prime minister noted that Ukraine supported Croatia in 1991, becoming one of the first countries to recognize Croatia internationally, its independence, and provided the country with military equipment and weapons.
“Today Croatia supports Ukraine with equal strength and assistance,” Plenkovic emphasized.
Ukraine has launched an electronic system of accounting for the turnover of medical cannabis, the first pharmacy has applied for registration in it, said the Deputy Minister of Health for the development of digital transformation and digitalization.
“On Tuesday, this electronic system started working. We already have the first registration: a pharmacy from Cherkassy has already registered in the system. I hope more pharmacies will join,” she said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Karchevich specified that the sale of medkanabis drugs is carried out exclusively on the basis of an electronic prescription, so technical solutions have been developed to be able to prescribe and omit them.
In addition, the deputy minister recalled that the regulatory framework provides for the sale of both ready-made mednacabis preparations and preparations made in pharmacies from ready-made plant substances.
“In order to make it possible to manufacture these drugs in pharmacies, the requirements for the import of plant substances of cannabis have been determined,” she added.
Karchevych also noted that the registration of such substance can be carried out under a shortened procedure.
Due to technical reasons, the border crossing operations at the Palanca-Mayaky-Udobne checkpoint have been temporarily suspended, the State Customs Service of Ukraine reports.
The resumption of operations will be announced later.
Traffic on the transit section of the Odesa-Reni highway is carried out in the normal mode.
Palanka-Mayaky-Udobne checkpoint, STATE CUSTOMS SERVICE, UKRAINE
In Ukraine, the administrator of the town-planning cadastre at the state level has been working since October 1, the connection of local governments to the state cadastre has begun, according to Natalia Kozlovska, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure (Ministry of Infrastructure), during an extended meeting of the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine on Tuesday.
“Now local governments must upload to the urban planning cadastre the available urban planning documentation and all approved DPTs. We have started connecting local governments to the town planning cadastre,” Kozlovska said.
As specified in the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure, the state enterprise “Administrator of town-planning cadastre at the state level”, which is entrusted with these functions, will also be the administrator of the Unified State Electronic System in the field of construction (USESS) and the Unified State Register of Addresses (USRA).
The administrator’s task is to ensure transparency, accessibility and efficient management of the Town Planning Cadastre at the state level. It is expected that the work of urban cadastre at the state level will contribute to greater transparency in urban planning, development of digital economy and improve conditions for investors.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the launch of a two-year pilot project for the implementation of the town-planning cadastre at the state level by Resolution No. 909 “Some issues of realization of the pilot project on the implementation of the town-planning cadastre at the state level”.
The cadastre, in particular, provides services to support the development, verification of draft documents, as well as their preservation in a single register. An electronic cabinet of the Cadastre user has also been introduced.
As it is supposed, Gradkadastr will be connected with other information resources, in particular, with the Unified Ecological Platform “EcoSystem”, the State Register of property damaged and destroyed as a result of hostilities, terrorist acts, sabotage caused by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, regarding obtaining information (data) on damaged and destroyed property.
On October 5, the Ministry of Infrastructure will hold a meeting with regional military administrations (OBA) to discuss the issue of providing information on the customers of urban planning documentation, on October 10 the first community training on the functionality of the customer of urban planning documentation is scheduled.
The project on creation of the City Cadastre is implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Community and Territory Development, Ministry of Digital Transformation with the assistance of the project “Support for Digital Transformation”, funded by USAID and UK Dev. The project partner is the Eastern Europe Foundation.
Industrial production in Ukraine in June this year decreased by 0.3% against June last year and by 6.2% against May this year, the State Statistics Service (Gosstat) said in a statement.
According to its data, as a result, the growth of industrial production at the end of the first half of 2024 compared to the same period last year slowed to 8.1% from 9.9% at the end of five months.
It is pointed out that the decline in production in June was due to a drop in the supply of electricity, gas, steam and conditioned air, down 11.2%, while the processing industry recorded an increase of 0.6% and mining and quarrying 1.4%.
It is specified that the increase in production in June 2024 to June 2023 was recorded in metallurgy – by 34%, in mining and quarrying – by 1.4% due to growth in the extraction of metal ores – by 30.1%, in the production of coke and petroleum refining products – by 3.2%.
In general, for the first half of 2024 industrial production in Ukraine increased in the processing industry – by 11%, in mining and quarrying – by 9.3%, in the supply of electricity, gas, steam and conditioned air – by 1.5%.
The Stat Department points out that the volume of industrial products sold in January-June this year reached 1707.9 billion UAH, of which outside the country – 351.7 billion UAH.
The State Statistics Committee reminded that in May this year there was a growth of 3.6% compared to May last year, in April – by 11.6%%, in March – by 5%.
According to revised data of the State Statistics Committee, industrial production in Ukraine in 2023 increased by 6.8%, while in 2022 the decline amounted to 36.7%.
