Public-Private Partnership Round Table
A round table entitled ‘Public-Private Partnerships in Ukraine: A Practical Perspective’ was held in the Kyiv Rus Hotel on 8th December. The round table was jointly organised by the EU funded project ‘Implementation of Ukraine’s commitments under WTO and ENP frameworks in the rural sector’ together with the British Embassy in Kyiv. The objectives of the round table were to understand the current legal aspects of PPP’s in Ukraine, explore mechanisms for their effective development and operation, and gain an insight on how PPP’s are structured and work in other countries.
Participants in the round table included representatives of Verhovna Rada, Government of Ukraine, diplomatic community in Kyiv, Ukrainian business and finance organisations, and other donors and projects. The round table was opened by welcoming speeches from the British Ambassador, Leigh Turner, the EU Ambassador, Jose Manual Pinto Teixeira, and the Deputy Head of the Verhovna Rada Committee on Industry, Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship, Ksenia Lyapina.
Speakers from Ukrainian Parliament and Government explained the current legal basis of public and private cooperation, and the constraints affecting PPP’s in Ukraine. Project experts John Millns and Roman Korinets spoke respectively about establishing PPP’s in Ukraine from scratch and PPP opportunities in agriculture. Several speakers from the United Kingdom and Russia presented valuable experiences of structuring and managing PPP’s in their own countries.
EU-funded project helps promote investment in the Ukrainian Agrarian Sector
June 16, 2010, Kyiv - The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, in association with the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine and the EU-funded project ‘Implementation of Ukraine’s commitments under WTO and ENP frameworks in the rural sector’ organised the first investment forum in Ukraine devoted to the topic of agricultural wholesale market development. The main objective of the investment forum was to network potential market developers in Ukraine with interested financiers and investors in order to develop agricultural wholesale markets in Ukraine similar to those successfully operating in the European Union.
The investment forum was opened by Yevhenij Lavrov, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Laura Garagnani, Head of Operations of the Delegation of the European Union.
The forum was divided into three panels. The first panel focused on the general investment climate in Ukraine in relation to the Free Trade Agreement and the EU Association Agenda, recent developments in promoting wholesale markets including state policy for agricultural market development The panel included speakers from the Ministry of the Economy, the State Agency of Ukraine for Investment and Development, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the United Nations Environment Programme.
The second panel focused on the experience of investors in agriculture and speakers included representatives from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank, the Danish Investment Fund for Central and Eastern Europe and also from private sector investors including, Dragon Capital, Horizon Capital, Sigma Blezyer and the JSCB Forum.
A number of agricultural wholesale market proposals were presented in the third panel. Proposals for markets in Odesa, Lviv, Kyiv and Chernivtsi were featured. Following the presentations and discussions, a reception allowed informal networking between investors and developers to discuss future mutual interests in this area.
