The Committee on Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship held public hearings "Mechanisms of state support of agro-industrial complex and development of entrepreneurship in rural areas"
03 July 2012, 14:41
Opening the event, the head of the Committee Natalia Korolevska stressed the necessity to have comprehensive state support of Ukrainian dairy industry. According to her, Ukraine needs an optimal model for development of agro-industrial complex (AIC) that would provide for quality products accessible for Ukrainian consumers and competitive on external markets.
N. Korolevska believes that three key tasks should be performed to accomplish this goal, namely: determine minimum purchase prices; provide governmental grants for production of social food products; create favorable conditions for investment into large dairy farms.
Participants of the hearings discussed the bill to amend article 3 of the Law "On State Support of Agriculture in Ukraine" regarding regulation of procurement prices for milk (Reg. No. 10456).
The bill was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on June 7, 2012. The bill includes milk into the category of agricultural products that are subjects of state price regulation. It also determines that the wholesale and retail companies, as well as processing companies, shall settle accounts with suppliers of objects of state price regulation within seven banking days from the day they receive the products.Учасники засідання акцентували увагу на нормах законопроекту, який прийнято Верховною Радою 07.06.2012 року. Adoption of this law will allow for improvement of the mechanism of state support of the agro-industrial complex and ensure access to goods of the milk group for all categories of population irrespective of their income.