KYIV, Dec 14 - The Verkhovna Rada will change the formula for calculating royalties for the extraction of manganese ore by analogy with iron ore, as established by the "resource" law (bill No. 5600), the head of the parliamentary committee on finance, taxation and customs policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, said.

"Do not even doubt that we will impose royalties on manganese ore in any of the following bills according to the scheme according to which we imposed it on iron ore. This is actually a decision made," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.