Ukraine is determined to try again to sell the Odessa port plant
The Odessa Port Plant (OPZ) will be privatized under a new law with the involvement of a foreign adviser, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the acting Head of the State Property Fund Vitaly Trubarov on Facebook.
“Now work is underway to prepare a competition for the selection of an adviser, and as soon as the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade decides on its candidacy for the commission, we will proceed to the formation of its tasks and conditions of the auction,” he wrote.
According to Trubarov, at the same time, work is underway with foreign advisers within the framework of the privatization working group, headed by Cabinet Minister Alexander Saenko, to find ways to restructure the debts of the OPP.
“The goal is successful privatization and a functioning HMO,” the head of the fund emphasized.
Trubarov recalled that previously the sale of OPP was planned in accordance with the transitional provisions of the new law (that is, according to the norms of the old law), since pre-privatization preparations began even before it came into force.
Previously, the Cabinet of Ministers reduced the list of large-scale privatization enterprises, excluding three objects from it - the Aluminum Foil Plant, the Agrarian Fund and the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine. The approved list included 23 objects. Previously, the State Property Fund planned to privatize 26 objects.
It is expected that large-scale privatization will begin in early autumn.
The government expects that the sale of state facilities will bring UAH 21,3 billion to the budget.
On January 18 of this year, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the second reading bill No. 7066 “On the privatization of state property.” On March 2, the law was signed by President Petro Poroshenko. It came into force on March 7.
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