Ukraine needs to adopt a new law on economic competition and conduct antitrust checks on all monopoly companies, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said, when introducing a new program of the government.

"All monopolies should pass antitrust checks, the procedure of control and, accordingly, be either deprived of the status of a monopoly or act in accordance with the government regulations as the companies being under state control, because they have a monopoly on the market," the premier said.