Government amends list of enterprises to be privatized in 2016-2017

Government amends list of enterprises to be privatized in 2016-2017

The government's committee for economic, financial and legal policy has approved a list of enterprises to be privatized in 2016-2017, among them are Turboatom, Electrotyazhmash, the United Mining and Chemical Company, the State Food and Grain Corporation, and a state stake in Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Combine LLC.A respective draft resolution was approved by the committee headed by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv at a meeting on August 30 to amend the list of the enterprises to be put up for sale in 2016-2017, First Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Yuliya Kovaliv wrote on Facebook.

"The full list of the companies due to be privatized in 2016-2017 will have 330 names," she wrote.A tender to sell Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant for a starting price of UAH 13.175 billion will be first to be held by the end of this year..