
We are open to dialogue with business and the community in solving problems in infrastructure sector, says Volodymyr Kistion about the work of the Logistics Committee under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
The Logistics
Committee under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has been designed to contribute
to finding comprehensive solutions to the problems that accumulated in infrastructure
area, to provide more efficiently coordinating of activities among Central
Executive bodies, and to interact with businesses and NGOs.
This was stated by
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Kistion on
the outcomes of the second meeting of the Committee.
"The Logistics
Committee as an interagency working group aims to help solving the problems
that have occurred in infrastructure in recent years. For the last two years
the index of logistics efficiency in Ukraine has dropped by 19 points: from 61 position in 2014 down to 80 in 2016. We need a comprehensive
analysis of the problems and better coordination of activities between
authorities in seeking for necessary solutions. It is for this purpose that the
Logistics Committee was set up", stressed Volodymyr Kistion.
According to him, principal
tasks entrusted to the Committee include analysis and determining of logistics
problems and barriers; developing of ways, mechanisms and methods of
implementation of reforms in the logistics domain; preparation of proposals on
improvement of legislative and normative-legal framework necessary to regulate logistics
issues.
The operations of
the Logistics Committee shall focus on three directions: strategic
infrastructure development, streamlining of trade and optimization of tariffs. Keeping
in mine these three lines there have been established three working subgroups within
the Committee, headed by First Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Evhen Kravtsov, Deputy Minister
of Economic Development and Trade Mykhailo Tytarchuk and Deputy Minister of Finance Serhii Marchenko.
The subgroups comprise
representatives of line ministries and central executive authorities. In
addition, to participate in the Logistics Committee and relevant subgroups are invited
members of the public and businesses.
"Since the
Committee must apply a comprehensive approach to solving urgent problems and pursuing
reforms, we invite to cooperation business representatives and line associations.
I personally and all members of the Committee are ready to hear constructive
suggestions from all stakeholders. We are open to dialogue with business and
the community in solving problems in infrastructure sector", emphasized Volodymyr
Kistion.
In the near future it
will be posted on the Government portal an invitation and conditions for
participation in the next meeting of the Logistics Committee.