Dear colleagues! Fellow Ukrainians!

We are starting a regular Government meeting.

One of the main areas of our work is systemic deregulation.

Since soviet times, Ukraine has inherited a cumbersome and sometimes absurd regulatory bureaucracy.

Numerous permits, approvals, registrations, and certificates created artificial barriers to business development, worsened the investment climate, and hindered economic activity.

At the start of our Government’s work, we identified deregulation as one of the key tasks in the field of economic policy.

We are systematically moving towards this goal.

Even before the outbreak of the full-scale war, an interregional deregulation group was working effectively. Back then, we cancelled more than 1,600 regulatory acts related to regional specifics.

We especially accelerated in this direction after the outbreak of a full-scale war. In 2023, we created the Interagency Working Group on Deregulation. Thanks to its activities, 138 regulatory instruments have been cancelled to date.

We are now making a huge step forward.

We are adopting six decisions that together cancel another 204 regulatory instruments in various areas:

• 150 regulatory instruments in the field of healthcare and sanitary control;
• 15 instruments in the areas of labour protection, trade, construction and fire safety;
• 22 instruments related to law enforcement, the environment, agriculture and other areas.

In particular, from now on, there will be no need to obtain approval for a project to re-profile an enterprise, obtain a sanitary passport for a vehicle, take a conclusion on the possibility of building a health facility, etc.

The economic effect of the decisions taken today will amount to more than UAH 600 million.

In the near future, we plan to cancel more than a hundred more regulatory instruments. Most of them are within the competence of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Economy.

The relevant protocol instructions have been given to these and other government agencies.

Our task is to create comfortable working conditions for entrepreneurs.

We achieve this not only through deregulation.

We are implementing a comprehensive programme and policy called “Made in Ukraine”, which includes affordable loans, grants, and public procurement from Ukrainian manufacturers.

We are creating and equipping the infrastructure of industrial parks.

We are building an export-oriented economy and increasing the share of processed products in the export structure.

We are working on insuring the risks caused by the war.

I am grateful to everyone involved in this complex work.

I am grateful to Ukrainian entrepreneurs who start their own business, develop and modernise their business.

I am grateful to foreign investors for every dollar invested in our economy. This makes us more resilient and, most importantly, demonstrates your faith in the future of Ukraine.

I am grateful to the millions of Ukrainians who work, teach, treat and rescue. And most importantly, I thank the Ukrainian defenders.

Together we will stand and rebuild Ukraine!

Thank you for your attention!

Glory to Ukraine!