KYIV, Sept 24 – A bill (No. 12058) on growing energy crops and producing biodiesel has been registered in Ukraine's Parliament, as announced by MP Serhiy Labaziuk (For the Future Party).

He highlighted that large areas of land in Ukraine have been degraded due to war and natural factors. Restoring such land is expensive, while conservation leads to wasted time and resources.

KYIV, Sept 24 - The transition of the Ukrainian agricultural sector to new EU standards should be gradual so that farmers can implement them in production and ensure sustainable development of villages, said Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitaliy Koval at a meeting with the EU Delegation to Ukraine and the EU project "Institutional and Policy Reform for Smallholder Agriculture" (IPRSA).

KYIV, Sept 24 – The European Commission plans to begin selecting applications from international financial institutions (IFIs) with projects aimed at financing Ukrainian businesses under the second phase of the investment component of the Ukraine Facility (UIF) by the end of September.

KYIV, Sept 24 - Provided that the state program of preferential lending eOselia is financed stably, the share of mortgage sales on the primary market will grow to 40-45%.

KYIV, Sept 24 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed an agreement with Kyiv to provide EUR 50 million to replace outdated Russian-made metro coaches with modern and energy-efficient alternatives, the press service of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine reported.

KYIV, Sept 22 – Metallurgical and foundry companies in Poland have the technology and practical capabilities for processing scrap metal created as a result of the disposal of military equipment, President of the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals (UAVtormet) Volodymyr Bubley said after participating in the first European steel congress STEEL 2023 in Poland.

KYIV, Sept 22 – Some 74% of companies continue to invest in Ukrainian subsoil during the war, 18% have not yet made such a decision, and only 8% have not yet invested, according to the results of a survey conducted by the European Business Association (EBA) among EBA member companies, carrying out activities in the field of subsoil use.

KYIV, Sept 23 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the recovery of the Ukrainian economy from the coronavirus crisis by the end of 2020 will become sustainable as exports have been growing strongly.

KYIV, Sept 23 – The fact that Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported net loss of UAH 11.541 billion in January-June was projected and expected amid falling prices and reduced demand for energy resources, as well as loss of revenues from gas transit, said Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev on Facebook.

KYIV, Sept 23 – The Naftogaz Group after the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce rendered a Second Partial Final Award revising the participants' shares in the joint property expects an outflow of its resources in amount of UAH 1.796 million to be paid to Karpatygaz LLC and Sweden's Misen Enterprises AB, according to the group's financial statements for H1 2020.