Government annuls 367 regulatory acts pursuant to deregulation

The Ukrainian government has annulled 367 various resolutions and acts overregulating businessmen' operations, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.

"Today this is an example of the solution that would help us to climb in the Doing Business Index by 10 positions," he said, opening a government meeting in Kyiv on Wednesday.

The prime minister said that this will concern all spheres where extra regulation hinders business development and creates corruption risks.

"We would annul everything in packages. If a ministry wants to leave some regulating rules, let it explain this in public," Groysman said.

First Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Maksym Nefyodov said that the list drawn up with the participation of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) has outdated documents such as regulation of the volumes of hay and its price on the markets, but most of them are those which business is suffering from. He pointed out the revoking of oversight over observation of Soviet standards and a ban to store property in containers or wagons.

Nefyodov said that among other important decisions is facilitation of the rules for installing mobile communications towers, annulment of the floor prices of notary services, automation of the pecuniary appraisal of land parcels, updating of the typical land leasing agreement and updating of oil and gas production rules.

The revised license conditions related to fire prevention and industrial fish catch were approved.