KIEV, Jan. 7 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law on the ratification of the protocol on Ukraine's accession to the Energy Community.

Parliament, on December 15, 2010, ratified the protocol on the country's accession to the Energy Community.

The treaty establishing the Energy Community took effect on July 1, 2006. The community's members are the European Union countries, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo.