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GOVERNMENT PROTECTION OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY IN UKRAINE: ARGUMENTS ‘FOR’ AND ‘AGAINST’ |
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Date: |
June 19, 2002 (11:00-13:00) |
Place: |
Premises of the IER at Reytarska 8/5-A, in 01034 Kiev |
Organizers: |
IER and GAG |
Outline
The major objectives of the round table were to discuss and suggest a set of policy recommendations to the Ukrainian Government. Further objectives were to identify problems requiring deeper analysis and research efforts and to improve communication and interaction between government, non-government, and research organizations dealing with the questions of the development of Ukrainian metallurgical sector.
Representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Economy and European Integration, the Ministry of Industrial Policy, the Accounting Chamber, the Ministry of Finance, the State Tax Administration, the National Research and Information Centre for Monitoring International Commodity Markets ‘Derzhzovnishinform’ and representatives of metallurgical enterprises, trade firms and law firms were invited.
The following questions were suggested for discussion:
Non-competitive practices and state intervention in the world and in Ukraine.
Results of the 'economic experiment' at ore-mining and metallurgical enterprises. The reliability of indicators of the efficiency of the Ukrainian steel industry.
Criticism of government support in Ukraine on the part of international community: the demand for coordination of steel plans at the international level, participation in OECD meetings, and collaboration with international steel associations.
The present and future role of the state in Ukrainian steel industry restructuring and consolidation; what should it be?
Programme
11:00-11:05 |
Opening of the round table: Igor Burakovsky, Director, IER |
| 11:05-11:20 |
The economic implications of the government support for the steel industry in Ukraine: Nina Legeida, Research Associate, IER; Volkhart Vincentz, Member of the GAG |
11:20-11:30 |
Discussion |
11:30-11:40 |
The current and future role of the state in restructuring and consolidation of steel industry: Serhiy Gryshchenko, Deputy State Secretary of Steel Industry Development, Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine |
11:40-11:50 |
Discussion |
11:50-12:00 |
State’s role in creation of a modern competitive Ukrainian metallurgy complex: Igor Lysytsky, Head of Department for Development of Markets and Structural Transformations, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine |
12:00-12:10 |
Discussion |
12:10-12:20 |
Information about the draft of the Law ’On the national programme for development and reforming of mining and metallurgy complex of Ukraine till 2010’: Valeriy Sergiyenko, Senior Scientific Advisor on Macroeconomics and Industrial Development, Verhovna Rada |
12:20-12:30 |
Discussion |
12:30-12:40 |
Criticism of government support in Ukraine on the part of international community: the demand for coordination of steel plans at the international level, participation in OECD meetings, and collaboration with international steel associations: Volodymyr Pikovsky, Deputy Director of the National Research and Information Centre for Monitoring International Commodity Markets |
12:40-12:50 |
Discussion |
12:50-13:00 |
Conclusions: Igor Burakovsky, Director, IER |