KIEV, July 5 – Parliament has adopted two draft laws on recycling of old vehicles and amendments to the Tax Code on the payment of a vehicle recycling tax.

KIEV, July 7 - British oil and gas company Cadogan Petroleum plc and Italy's Eni S.p.A. closed a transaction on July 6 where Eni acquired 30% of Pokrovskoe Petroleum B.V. and 60% in Zagoryanska Petroleum B.V. (both registered in the Netherlands), which are licensed to develop the Pokrovska and Zagoryanska oil and gas fields in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 7 - Ukrainian national oil firm Naftogaz Ukrayiny transferred around $860 million to Russian gas giant OJSC Gazprom, thereby fully paying for natural gas supply to the country in June 2011, the company.

KIEV, July 7 – The State Agency for Land Resources is planning to launch an automated land cadastre system by the end of autumn 2011, the agency's head, Serhiy Tymchenko, said.

KIEV, July 5 - The first half of this year saw 58.078 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas transit through Ukraine on its way to Europe and countries in the CIS, which was a 13.9% year-on-year increase.

KIEV, July 6 – The hryvnia exchange rate will hold relatively stable in the near tem, in the UAH 7.80-8.00/$1 range, according to Yuriy Kolobov, First Deputy in the near term Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, July 6 – The growth of industrial prices in Ukraine in June slowed down to 0.5% from 2.6% in May and 3.4% in April, the State Statistics Service reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, July 6 – Inflation in Ukraine slowed to 0.4% in June compared to 0.8% in May 2011, 1.3% in April 2011 and 1.4% in March 2011, the State Statistics Service reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, July 7 – The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has approved an agreement with Turkey signed on January 25 on setting up an international direct freight rail-ferry service.

KIEV, July 5 - Electricity output at power stations operated by Ukraine's state-run EnergoAtom nuclear energy company in January to June increased by 6.4% over the same six months last year to 43.726 billion kWh, EnergoAtom told Interfax.