KIEV, Aug. 4 – Karpatnaftokhim’s director general, Serhiy Chmykhalov, said his company supports the introduction of import duties on suspension polyvinylchloride (PVC-S).

KIEV, Aug. 4 - Karpatnaftokhim (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region) is intending to reach its planned suspension polyvinylchloride (PVC-S) production capacity in September 2011, said Serhiy Chmykhalov, the company's director general.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – The State Border Guard Service has said it is ready for the introduction of biometric controls at border checkpoints.

"I think the introduction of foreign passports with biometric data, which was announced by the Interior Ministry, will be carried out.

VINNYTSIA, Aug. 2 – The price of new harvest wheat of UAH 1,600 per ton covers the expenses of farmers and is the optimal price, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry is planning to complete the introduction of online emission monitoring at industrial companies in 2011, Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Mykola Zlochevsky said at a briefing in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – The Ukrainian State Border Guard Service says it is ready for a big increase in the number of people crossing the state border, and that it can now handle over 400,000 people per day.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Austria is ready to consider the signing of a bilateral agreement on the cancellation of fees for the registration of national visas for Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov said at a briefing on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 4 - Ukraine has delayed the launch of Ukrtelecom's privatization by a month and now plans to offer 92.79% of the national provider at an auction in September rather than August.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering a sovereign loan of up to EUR 450 million in order to support the rehabilitation and upgrading of road approaches to Kiev and performance-based road maintenance contracts for the M-06 road, which will be introduced on a pilot basis in Ukraine.

The board date is fixed for September 28, the EBRD said in a statement on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – Ukraine's Antonov State Enterprise and Russia's Ilyushin Finance Co. leasing company have signed a contract for a supply of two An-148 regional jets, which will be assembled at the Antonov mass production plant, to a country in Southeast Asia in 2011.