SIMFEROPOL, May 13 - European Union sanctions against state company Chornomornaftogaz will in no way affect its work, company spokesman Valery Kotenev told Interfax on Tuesday.

KIEV, May 13 – The National Bank of Ukraine has amended the rules for the functioning of the agreement confirmation system, additionally regulating the application of enforcement actions on currency speculation.

KIEV, May 8 - Ukrtransgaz, Ukraine's trunk gas pipeline operator, has signed an agreement with Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen GmbH (Germany) on the modernization of the Bar compressor station of the Soyuz trunk gas pipeline (Barsky district, Vinnytsia region).

KIEV, May 13 – This year, Ukraine may harvest 56.55 million tons of grain against 45.3 million tons last year, U.S. Department of Agriculture reported.

KIEV, May 13 – The State Property Fund said that this month it will audit the fulfillment of the investment commitments ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (earlier Kryvorizhstal, Dnipropetrovsk region), for 2012.

KIEV, May 13 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the second time this year downgraded its forecast for the development of the Ukrainian economy and it is now expecting it to decline by 0.5%.

KIEV, May 13 - Ukraine will probably reduce imports of natural gas to between 30 billion cubic meters and 32.5 billion cu m in 2013, down from 32.9 Bcm in 2012, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Monday.

KIEV, May 10 - Ukraine reduced gas transit to Europe and other CIS countries by 8.127 billion cubic meters (bcm) or 20.2% year-on-year in January-April 2012, to 32.137 bcm, Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, reported.

KIEV, May 10 – The recommended addition of 5% bioethanol to gasoline in 2013 and its obligatory addition in 2014 will increase the capacity utilization of Ukraine’s alcohol facilities to 70% or more, said Kostiantyn Borodin the deputy director of the department on oil and gas industry and alternative energy at the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry.

KIEV, May 10 – Russia in 2012 has boosted its production of emission reduction units (ERUs) and has every chance of forcing Ukraine from first position in the realization of joint projects, the Environmental (Green) Investments Fund (Kiev) told Interfax-Ukraine.