On December 10, the Cabinet of Ministers submitted the Draft State Budget Law for 2011 to the Verkhovna Rada. The Draft is based on the provisions of the recently approved Tax Code. Simultaneously, another draft law was submitted to the Parliament envisaging the amendments to the Budget Code, as some provisions of two Codes are contradicting.
International conference titled “Biomass market in Ukraine: possibilities to export to the EU: practical issues of certification requirements” gathered experts, businesses and authorities to discuss potential challenges of the sustainability requirements and their impact on the development of the agricultural commodity markets on November 30, 2010 in Kyiv.
At the end of 2009 the EU-Ukraine Association Agenda was adopted. Also, for 2010, a list of priorities for action was jointly agreed by Ukraine and the EU. And transport priorities include the following - implementation of EC acquis in transport legislation through development of new comprehensive national transport strategy of Ukraine. To prepare the strategy, the EU actively supported Ukraine by introduction of such projects – Twinning “Support to Transport Policy Design and Implementation in Ukraine” and “Support to the Integration of Ukraine in the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T”. As a result, sector Ministry and representatives of the EU elaborated a document – Transport strategy of Ukraine for the period until 2020 – that was adopted by the CMU on October 20, 2010. [2]
On 27 October 2010 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (CMU)approved the Concept of integrated border management in line with the CMU Resolution of 19 May on the plan of priority actions for 2010 on Ukraine's integration to the EU.
Tne new Tax Code has aroused ambiguous reaction in the society. Only members of small-scale business expressed dissatisfaction with it...
Deteriorated expectations as to this year grain harvest have emerged due to unfavorable weather conditions. Together with decreased supply on the world grain markets from certain countries and uphold in price level, this spurred the food security concerns and called for preventive policy measures.
On September 24, 2010 the two-year long negotiation process of Ukraine’s accession to the Energy community came to its logic end. Yuriy Boyko, Ukraine’s energy minister, signed the relevant protocol in Skopje, Macedonia, which legally formalized Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty. In order to enter finally into force this protocol must be ratified by the Verkhovna Rada.
Commenting future Agreement on Common Aviation Area between EU and Ukraine.
Harvesting was hampered by extreme weather conditions in the Black Sea Region this year. Grain production in Russia will most likely not exceed consumption. Total grain production in 2010/11 MY is forecast by the Russian Government at about 60 to 65 million t (87 million t in 2009/10 MY).