KYIV, Oct 23 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry will reorganize and merge state-owned coal enterprises into the newly created state-owned enterprise National Coal Company, and all permits will be re-registered to this company by the end of this year.

This is outlined in the action plan for 2017 to implement the concept for reforming and developing coal industry in Ukraine for the period until 2020 approved in government resolution No. 733 dated May 24, 2017 and published in the Uriadovy Kurier government's newspaper only on October 21, 2017.