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International cooperation
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Programs and projects of technical assistance
(Environmental Management Development in Ukraine (The
Dnipro basin region) Program of Canadian Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance Programs of the other countries
Investment projects
Increase of the international cooperation activity is of
particular importance for carrying out the tasks of the National Program related to the
Dnipro river as having an influence on Europe and the whole world. The international
cooperation regarding ecological improvement of the Dnipro basin is carrying out by the
Ministry of Ecological Safety in the following directions:
- development of the cooperation and contractual relations to Russia and Belorus
placing in the Dnipro basin. These agreements are concerned the problems of the protection
and rational using water resources.
- providing with technical assistance in the environmental protection sphere within
international programs;
- using foreign investment for financing of National, regional and local ecological
programs of the ecology improvement of the Dnipro river environmental and drinking water
quality.
A lot of countries plan to help Ukraine in the ecology problems of
the Dnipro river. These countries are Canada, USA, the Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands,
Finland as well as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Global
Ecological Fund.
Programs and projects of the technical assistance
Environmental Management Development in Ukraine (the Dnipro basin
region) Program of Canadian Technical Assistance
A declaration on technical cooperation between the Government of
Ukraine and the Government of Canada for executing a program of environment management
development for the Dnipro basin was signed in Kyiv on March 31, 1994. Recognizing the
problem of rehabilitation of the polluted Dnipro system as a most important priority for
the Government of Ukraine and acknowledging that the natural environment protection is of
exceptional importance for Ukraine, the Governments of Ukraine and Canada announced the
establishment of a technical assistance program aimed at strengthening the environmental
management capacity in Ukraine carrying out demonstration projects aimed at reducing
levels of pollution of the Dnipro river
Successful and effective implementation of the Program in
1994-1997 (over 40 projects valued 3,2 million Canadian dollars), positive and practical
results and permanent contacts with governmental and scientific Canadian structures has
become the foundation for the following joint work. That’s way the Government of Canada
and the Canadian International Development Research Agency grant a financial assistance
valued 2,6 million Canadian dollars through the International Development Research Center
(IDRC). This assistance was granted to the Ministry of the Economics and the Ministry of
the Ecological Safety for the special using of the Environmental Management Development in
Ukraine (the Dnipro basin region) during 1997-2000.
The International Development Research Center (IDRC) was chosen to
be the Executing Agency for the Program’s implementation. IDRC was recognized at the UNO
Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992 as the best institution for
creation of environmental programs.
The official partner in carrying out the Program was determined to
be the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety as well as the Ministry of
Economics and the Dnipro Rehabilitation Fund (from May 1998 the International Dnipro
Fund). Numerous Ukrainian research institutes, local authorities, training centers, and
environmental non-governmental organizations were invited to participate in this program.
The goal of the Program is the supporting and facilitating the
execution of the reform process in Ukrainian institutions and organizations. These reforms
are aimed to increasing the environmental protection activities, improving the economy and
investment policy as well as increasing the ecological information level in Ukraine.
The Program includes three main component assistance parts. They
are:
a) development of the environmental system management in the
conditions of integration of ecological policy into economy reforms strategy;
b) effective measures on decreasing the pollution of the surface
and underground waters through the demonstration projects system;
c) contemporary ecological and investment measures for the
transition to the market economics.
Particular objectives of the Program are the following:
- founding a favourable investment environment in Ukraine, especially in the Dnipro
basin;
- development of the ecological management in industry, municipal institutions, and
agricultural complex;
- improvement of drinking water quality and its rational using;
- development of the ecological enterprise;
- increasing ecological information in Ukraine by mass media;
- development of ecological education in Ukraine;
The Program will initiate projects on realization of the goals and
tasks established by the National Program of the Dnipro Basin Ecological Rehabilitation
and the Drinking Water Quality Improvement.
As was defined above, The Ukrainian Management Committee manages
2,6 million Canadian dollars from the total sum of the grants valued 4,2 million Canadian
dollars. The Committee was created by the joint decree of the Ministry of the
Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety and the Ministry of Economics of Ukraine. The
minister of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety Shevchuk V. J. is at the head of
the Committee. The members of the Committee are heads of the Ministry of Environmental
Protection and Nuclear Safety, The Ministry of Economics. The other members are the State
Committee of Water Resources, the State Committee of Hydrology and Meteorology, the State
Committee of Public Servicing, the State Committee of Geology as well as the International
Dnipro Fund, National Science Academy and the other science and research institutes and
organizations of Ukraine.
There are practically no analogs of such a trust, regarding the
distributing finances of funds of the grants, in other programs of technical assistance to
Ukraine. It gives the opportunity to the numerous scientists and specialists to take an
active part in the Program instead of rendering technical assistance exceptionally by
foreign specialists. A most acceptable form of the international ecological cooperation of
the transitional period in the making of our state is a form of the international
ecological cooperation that based on a total trust to Ukrainian side, on development of
Ukrainian science and technical potential in conditions of the state financing.
The implementation of these purposes is doing through the series
of projects that ought to have maximum effectiveness and minimum losses by the way of
carrying out and implementation of the short-team measures. It helps to give a positive
dependable result in the near future.
During 1998 Ukrainian Management Committee got near 150 proposals.
The Committee considered all the proposals at the conferences as it has been planned and
approved for financing 26 projects valued over 2,5 million Canadian dollars that consists
over 100% of the finances has been set by the Program for researches and development. The
Committee for the first time established the priority of quality and practical
significance of the projects of the international technical assistance.
The results of Ukrainian-Canadian cooperation on the
implementation of the Environment of the Dnipro Basin Management Program ought to be taken
into account by the implementation of the National Program. They will be used in the
normative, technical, designed documents as well as the educational programs.
The demonstration projects will function as practically working
models, centers.
It is suppose that their implementation will be on by the way of
modern techniques introduction, of drinking water providing, of purification of sewerage
water and filtrates of municipal dumps, conducting environmental audits at industry
enterprises. The results of the audits will definite small-investment management,
technological and economic measures with the according ecological effect (“green
technologies”).
Implementation of the projects of practical assistance in
Zaporizhzhya is an example of the environmental problem solution in one of the most
industrial centers of Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhya region became a base for the following measures
within the Program:
- implementation of the pilot projects of improvement of sewerage and supply water
system;
- conducting environmental audits and implementing of the ecologically pure
technologies;
- carrying out and implementing of the pilot equipment for purification of sewerage
waters of dumps and waste treatment of the industrial and consumer waste;
- creating the regional information system of environmental management;
Implement of the project of the new waste treatment technologies
of filtrates from the landfield placed at the Levanevsky, near Zaporizhzhya starts in
accordance with the Program. The project realizes by the municipal authorities and science
and research institutes and organizations of Zaporizhzhya and Kharkov.
After corresponding researches a pilot plant will be designed and
installed for the purification of the landfield filtrates. At present the territory of the
landfield is not provided with an anti-filter screen and special drainage system for
removing leachate (over 200 thousand industrial and consumer waste are piled without
preliminary trearment).
Implement of the project can demonstrate the opportunity of
control of landfields for decreasing negative environmental influence. The project can
popularize the gained experience over the regions of the country.
The other project helps to Vodocanal and Ukrvodproject (Ukrainian
Water Project Committee) in Zaporizhzhya. It try to ground and to develop powers for
production of organic and mineral fertilizers by treatment of sediment (deposite) from
sewerage treatment facilities as well as lignin and gyps phosphate that accumulated in
industrial dumps.
The big project will be implemented at one of the water supply
station in Zaporizhzhya. Its goals are following:
- the science designing and creating several version of technological schemes of
qualitative drinking water preparation within the conditions of the supply stations of
Zaporizhzhya;
- creating a pilot module plant for the proposed solutions control and technological
parameters practice;
- carrying out proposals for creating research and industrial technological line and
for re-equipping the working facilities for technological processes proposed for center
water supply systems of the big cities of the South Ukraine placed in the Dnipro basin.
The important aspect of the Program is implementation of the
projects of conducting of ecological audit in Ukraine. The demonstrative ecological audit
will be conducting at 13 enterprises of Zaporizhzhya, Cherkassy and Kyiv. The result will
be carrying out the ecological programs of modernization and further development of
small-investment management, technological and economic measures with the ecological
effect on every enterprise. The result will be also carrying out regional recommendations
on conducting ecological audit and ecologically pure works.
Carrying out the creation of the normative, methodical, material
and technical base has started. The base is intended for introduction of method of
biological testing into the system of the evaluation of state and of the control of the
sources of pollution made by the toxic combinations in the Dnipro basin. The project that
will be implemented in the Lower Dnipro region supposes the preparation of specialists of
the municipal organizations of ecological safety.
The permanent consideration is giving to providing of state
management organizations of Ukraine with highly skilled ecologists that can effectively
solve the ecological problems of Ukraine, can give a right evaluation to possible negative
consequences and avoid them according to the interests of successful development of
economics spheres. While the projects implementing scores of Ukrainian managers,
specialists and scientists will participate in training seminars or will be sent on
business trips for training in the questions solved by the Program.
The important part of the Program structure is increasing of the
scope of ecological information of the community by mass media. The Program also give a
consideration to providing participation of public in environmental protection measures,
providing development of concrete information of the goals and tasks of the National
Program as well as the Ukrainian-Canadian cooperation Program.
So the electronic version of the National Atlas of Ukraine is
creating in Ukraine for the first time according to the Program. The goal of the Atlas is
spreading the newest spatial and temporary information about the natural resources as well
as social, economic, ecological features of the development of Ukraine on the threshold of
XXI century.
The Program implement is widely educating in mass media of Ukraine
and Canada. Ukrainian specialists are shooting the series of the TV programs “the Green
Studio”. It’s goal is lighting on the course of the National Program implementing and
the Program’s contents. These TV programs are following:
“Ecological audit and the green technologies”, “Ecological
monitoring and Dnipro information system”, and some others. The programs went on at
UT-1, UT-2 studios and other studios during 1998. The series of video films on natural and
reserve fund of the Dnipro basin are being prepared. The subject of the Program projects was showed in Ukraine Today Program in ÑIS
(Concord of Independent States) as well as Ukrainian TV Studio in Canada.
Through this cooperation long-term contacts have been established
between the Ukrainian and Canadian governmental authorities, research institutes, public
and non-governmental environmental organizations. Also with the help of IDRC and for the
solution of the concrete practical problems, long-term relationships have been established
between Ukrainian organizations and the World Bank and the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development.
The Program implement, including financial aspects, is checking by
the International Canadian Development Agency and by independent auditors. It is
recognized that Program projects are implementing in the accordance with the Memorandum
requires.
Effective implement of the Canadian Technical Assistance Program
helps to improvement of the investment climate in Ukraine and also development of the
Canadian and Ukrainian relationships. It was emphasized during the Prime Minister of
Canada J. Chrétien visit.
The Technical Assistance Programs of the other
countries
Starting of implement of International the Dnipro River Ecological
Improvement Program (Ukraine, Russia, Belorus) is supposed within the project of the
Global Ecological Fund (GBF), named “Preparation of the strategy program for the Dnipro
basin and ways of its implement”. The project is a result of development of Ukrainian,
Russian and Belorussian cooperation in environmental protection sphere and implement of
the Program of economic cooperation between Ukraine and Russian Federation in 1998-2007.
Also the Project is supposed by the Cooperation Plan between the Ministry of the
Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine and the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental Protection of Belorus Republic.
The initiative of the Project implement has started in January
1995. The plenipotentiaries of the Ministries of the Environmental Protection of Belorus
Republic, Russian Federation and Ukraine have signed the Memorandum of the participants of
the International Conference on the Problems of the Dnipro River Ecological Improvement.
The Memorandum determines the necessity of joint efforts of three countries that develop
the special International Program.
After consideration of the problem of the trilateral cooperation
in the Dnipro river environmental sphere, the ministers of the environmental protection of
Belarus, Russian Federation and Ukraine in July 1996 have confirmed their decision of the
preliminary stage project preparation.
In 1998 three-year preparatory work at the expense of GEF and IDRC
financing to a total value of 0,3 million dollars USA financing has been completed. The
joint work of ministries, international, national experts, and other organizations helps
to carry out the project proposal “Preparation of the strategy program for the Dnipro
basin and ways of its implement”. It was approved by the Council of the Global
Ecological Fund in 1998.
The International the Dnipro basin Ecological Improvement Program
(Ukraine, Russia, Belorus) has first total value of 7 million dollars USA during the
period of 1999-2001. The Program helps to implement the complex of measures for decreasing
negative influence of the environmental pollution to the people health and the ecological
state of the Dnipro river. It also helps to provide stable using its resources and to keep
its biological variety. The Program will give the opportunity for the basin countries to
provide implementing the coordination and cooperation principles in accordance to
approached agreements.
The government of the USA gives the considerable technical
assistance in the solution of the problem of the Dnipro river environmental improvement.
It does it through the Environmental Protection Agency (ERA), USA, by the financial
supporting of the International Development Agency of the USA. Since 1994 the work for the
improvement of monitoring, of surface water quality, of laboratory analyses, of modeling,
and management has been concentrated on the Kaniv reservoir.
EPA and the Ministry of the Ecological Protection of Ukraine have
been convinced of the use of their cooperation and change of the technical and
organizational experience. They have concentrated their further efforts on the Dnipro
estuary. The estuary is a very valuable ecological system that is the link between the
Dnipro river and the Black Sea. It is of great importance for the solving of the
ecological problem of the Black Sea basin, but nevertheless it has been disregarded by the
international cooperation.
Two main goals of this work are the following:
1. To increase the realization of the quality water state and the
ecological safety in the complicated ecologically part of the Dnipro basin.
2. To distribute the experience of education and using of the
technologies that gained during the implement of the Program of water quality of the Kaniv
reservoir. The stuff of the local organizations of the Ministry of the Environmental
Protection ought to support management decisions. The corresponding equipment ought to be
taken by them.
It is supposed that by this approach the significant many-sided
effect can be taken.
The report of the joint work between the Ministry of the
Environmental Protection of Ukraine and the Environmental Protection Agency of the USA by
the financial supporting of the International Development Agency of the USA was signed in
October 1997. The report intends to implement the project “Evaluation and management of
water quality in the Dnipro estuary” in 1997-1998. Its total value is 0,25 million
dollars.
Both of the side pledges to further the implement of the efforts
for the increase of surface water quality and of ecological state of the Dnipro river and
its estuary. The work contents are important not only for the environmental improvement of
Ukraine, but for supporting the two-side cooperation within the Environmental Working
Group of the Support Economic Cooperation Committee, too (“Commission of Kuchma-Gor).
The project state has not been terminated, because its financing
has been stop on summer 1998.
In 1998 the Ministry of the Environmental Protection conducted the
work for getting the Japan Governmental Grant for financing the immediate technical
assistance projects. Also the Ministry considered the financial opportunities of carrying
out the General Plan on the waste treatment of concentration and of sewage water
purification that accompany ore output and concentration in Krivyi Rig. Its expected value
is from 2 to 5 million. The General Plan is the component part of the special project of
sewage water purification in Krivyi Rig within the National Program.
Investment projects
Governmental and local authorities bear the main economic
responsibility for the implement of the National Program and environmental protection
projects. The foreign financing is an important and essential addition to the resources of
Ukraine in the environmental sphere.
International cooperation related to the ecological improvement of
the Dnipro river is implemented with using the contemporary ways of financing of the
environmental protection activities. They are the following:
Allocation of preferential credits with deferment of payments and
low per cent of its serving;
Joint financing the projects by international financial
organizations, organizations- donors, and significant grants of the governmental and local
authorities;
Joining grants of foreign international organizations and of local
and governmental authorities for implement pilot projects for the further distribution all
over the country.
It is a complicated ecological situation in several settlements
and a result of proposals of the interested ministries, centers, regional and municipal
organizations that initiates preparatory work for getting credits, including the
preferential ones (for the first time their total value is 135 million dollars). The
credits were got from international financial organizations for reconstruction of
municipal and industrial treatment facilities in Krivyi Rig, Zaporizhzhya and Kyiv as in
the most polluted cities.
In conformity with instructions of the President of Ukraine and
the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the National Ukrainian Agency of Reconstruction and
European Integration as well as the Ministry of Economics, the Ministry of Finances, the
Ministry of environmental Safety has determined the priority projects for Ukraine.
Implement of the projects could be expedient at the expense of credits of the Japan
Official Development Assistance Program.
The Prime Minister of Ukraine has approved the priority of
implement of the purification sewage waters project in Krivyi Rig regarding distribution
of grants of ODR (Official Development Assistance) within the National Program. It
corresponds to the decree of the President of Ukraine “On the ecological and economic
experiment in Krivyi Rig, Dniprodzerzhinsk and Zaporizhzhya” (11 June 1997, No. 235/97).
It was the beginning of the implement of the National Program, marked by the Cabinet of
Ministers of Ukraine.
During 1998 the executive committee of the municipal council of
Krivyi Rig prepared technical and economic substantiation (TEO) of the expedience of
credit funds getting for financing the project. The Ministry of the Environmental Safety
has affirmed the priority of implement of the purification sewage waters project in Krivyi
Rig within the National Program. That’s why the Ministry confirm the TEO and proposed to
transfer it for further consideration to the Government of Japan for financing within the
Japan Official Development Assistance Program in 1999-2000.
In accordance with the decree of the President of Ukraine, the
Ministry of the Environmental Safety, the Dnopropetrovsk regional governmental
administration, Krivyi Rig municipal executive committee, the Ministry of Finances, the
Ministry of Economics, the Ministry of Industry and other ministries and centers consider
the list of the immediate measures on going out from the ecological crisis in Krivyi Rig.
The total value of these measures will be 500 million of gryvna during the period till
2005. Corresponding normative and legal base for financial supporting of the project’s
implement is carrying out. That is a result of the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers
of Ukraine “On stabilization of the social and economic situation in the Krivyi Rig
iron-stone basin” (23.11 98 No. 1846).
Reconstruction of the municipal and industrial treatment
facilities in accordance to sewage waters purification project is an important component
part of these measures. Implement of the measures in 1999 helps to improvement of water
ecological situation in Krivbas (the Krivyi Rig Iron Stone Basin).
Pursuant to preliminary consultations with the representatives of
the official organizations of Japan, the opportunity of getting the credits in 1999 during
40 years at 0,75 per cent of annual income, including 10 years of preferential period is
quite real.
In 1998 the Cabinet of the Ministers of Ukraine proposed to
prepare the project’s list for financing within the Japan Official Development
Assistance Program for Ukraine during next years. National Ukrainian Agency of
Reconstruction and European Integration, the Ministry of the Environmental Safety, the
interested ministries, centers, regional and municipal organizations prepared the list of
prospective projects for financing within the Program to transfer it for further
consideration to the Government of Japan. There are several constructions as immediate
environmental protection measures included into the list. They are the following:
- building the second line of the main collector in Kyiv. The goal of the project is
to build a new line parallel to the working main collector of the other line that is
necessary for turning off the sewage waters from the main collector and its capital
repairs. The full amortization has become yet in 1990. A collector damage can lead to the
ecological catastrophe not only within Kyiv but on the big territory of Ukraine;
- modernization of the treatment facilities on the right bank in Dniprodzerzhinsk.
- improvement of purification of sewage waters, dehydration and utilization of the
sediments (silt) at the treatment facilities in Chernigov. Implement of this project helps
to improve drinking water quality in Chernigov, to decrease the negative influence on
flora and fauna of the Desna river as well as to protect the water scoops of drinking
water from silting in Kyiv.
Beside that, to implement the instruction of the Cabinet of
Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of the Environmental Protection in 1999 considered and
supported the proposition of the Dnipropetrovsk the South machine-building plant. The
proposition includes the project of treatment facilities building at the plant into the
prospective project list in the part of waste control of the Japan Official Development
Assistance Program. The project is one of the immediate environment protection measures of
the National program.
In case of positive decision of the Japan Government that related
to credits for special financing the mentioned projects, municipal government
organizations ought to provide the development of technical and economic grounds. For the
ground financing the Ministry of Industry of Japan is working up a question of the
creation of a responsible fund.
The Ministry of the Environmental Protection and other interested
organizations has supported the proposal of the Zaporizhzhya regional state authority. It
has proposed to get a credit from the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction
(EBDR) and to give the state guarantee for receiving the credit. The credit is for the
reconstruction of treatment facilities in Zaporizhzhya.
The lack of the sufficient powers for the biological purification
of sewage waters of the light bank part of the city is one of the main ecological goal of
Zaporizhzhya. Only 200 thousand m 3 from 360 thousand m 3 in 24 hours is purifying. It
polluted the Dnipro river. The lack of sediment dehydrating facilities was the cause of
the sharp increase of the subsoil waters. It also can lead to soil dislocation near
Balabino and Kungushum.
The Zaporizhzhya regional state authority, the Municipal council
and the State Committee of Public Servicing in October 1995 appeal the EBDR to consider
the capacity of a loan. The goal of the loan is the intensification of building of the
object, development of the water supply and sewerage system of the city by using more
effective equipment and technology as well as by decrease of water losses, drink water
supply and of electrical energy losses.
The analysis of the state of water supply and sewerage system was
the basis of a program and of carrying out of technical and economic grounds for a project
in 1997. The analysis was worked by DKP “Vodokanal”, EBRD and skilled foreign
consulting organizations. The project total value is 48,67 million dollars USA, including
at the expense of the loan of EBRD 30 million dollars. The own funds of DKP
“Vodokanal” is 12,1 million dollars, the funds of the Zaporizhzhya municipal state
authority is 3,0 million dollars. The funds of the other organizations and of the TACIS
Program is 2.75 million dollars, the funds of state capital investment are 1,0 million
dollars.
The Project was approved by the Credit Council of the EBRD in
March 1998.
It is supposed that the reconstruction of the treatment facilities
in Zaporizhzhya can provide the stopping the disposal of the significant quantity of
sewage water into the Dnipro river. The reconstruction also can provide the increase of
drinking water quality and ecological situation in the city.
Within the Memorandum on the interrelation between the Ministry of
the Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety, the Environmental Agency of Denmark and
the ministry of the Environment of Finland, the Demonstrative Project will be implement in
Kyiv. The Project related to implement of the works on reconstruction of the sewerage
collector in the 40-richcha Zhovtnya prospect. The Danish and Finnish sides guarantee the
financial assistance in equal parts in 10 per cent from the project cost, it consists near
3 million dollars USA.
Kyiv municipal state authority on its part gives an order No. 1735
(19.08.98) on the reconstruction of the sewerage collector in the 40-richchya Zhovtnya
prospect. The goal is the prevention of the damage situation and of the pollution of the
environment by sewage waters. In the order the decision of the tender committee on choose
of the reconstruction technology is confirmed. The technology has been proposed by the
“Per Aarsleff A/C” Company.
Talks have taken place between the Ministry of the Environmental
Protection, DKO “Kyivvodokanal” and the representatives of Denmark and Finland. The
talks has confirmed that Danish “Per Aarsleff A/C” Company is ready for implement the
works on the collector reconstruction and for termination of the whole complex of works on
the collector 5,3 km during 14 months. The Company will do it by the guarantee of regular
financial providing.
After implementing the works on the collector reconstruction
(40-richchya Zivtnya prospect), all the complex of the Danish company technical equipment,
by the contract clause, will become the property of DKO “Kyivvodokanal”. It will be
used further at implement of such a work on sewerage collectors in Kyiv and other cities
of Ukraine.
Memorandum on the mutual understanding between the Government of
Ukraine and Government of Netherlands was signed 20 December 1996. It determine that in
the energy reserving and environment protection spheres Ukrainian and Netherlands sides
will carry out projects that will work together.
In September 1998 the Government of Ukraine and the Government of
Netherlands signed the Protocol on Intentions. It initiates a Project for a joint
implement named by “Decrease of hotbed gas disposal by implementing of the unaerobic
purification technology of sewage waters at the Yagotin sugar -house”. The Project (PSO
97/UK/4/5) was registered at the National Agency of Reconstruction and European
Integration in 17.02.98 (No. 352).
The Project is a very important for Ukraine because it shows the
capacities of contemporary unaerobic biological technology for sewage waters purification
at enterprises of food industry. The technology also helps to significant decrease of
hotbed gas disposals, to the more significant electric energy economy than the functioning
now ways of sewage waters purification with active silting.
The significance of the Project is out of the Yagotin sugar
–house as well as the sugar sphere as a whole, because the necessity of implementing the
effective technologies of sewage waters purification at enterprises is one of the priority
directions and goals of the National Program. The results of the Project in case of its
implement will have a significant nature protection effect and will help to improvement of
the ecological situation of the Dnipro river and its tributaries.
In accordance with the conditions of joint implement of the
Project investment of the Netherlands side will be 2,2 million guilders (1,1 million
dollars USA). The enterprise recipient finances 25 per cent from the total value that is
equal to near 5 hundred thousand hryvna.
The Ministry of the Environmental Safety has provided a partial
financing for designing, building and assembly works from the Ukrainian side at the
expense of the State Environmental Protection Fund. The Ministry of Agricultural Complex
of Ukraine proposed to increase the funds of the “Investment activities of the Ministry
of Agriculture Industry of Ukraine in 1999” part. The funds that valued 5 hundred
thousand gryvna are set aside for the Yagotin sugar –house.
The main directions of the Ministry of the Environmental Safety
within making more active the international cooperation in the Dnipro river Basin in 1999
are the following:
- participation in carrying out and consideration of international nature protection
projects and program of cooperation with the following organizations: the Ministry of
Finances, the Ministry of Economics, the National Agency of Reconstruction and European
Integration, the State Building Committee, and other interested ministries, organizations,
municipal organizations;
- participation in international, national and regional congresses, conferences and
nature protection exhibitions. The goal of this is information for the community about the
directions and goals of the National Program. The information will be also about enlisting
the international financial organizations, home and foreign investors to implement the
most important projects as well as about Ukrainian market of ecological products and
services;
- implement joint the International Dnipro Fund the works on the preparation and
output of publicity materials that deal with the activities on the National Program
implement and its distributing trough national and foreign informational agencies and
editions;
- creation and annually renovation of information data base of project proposals,
technical and investment projects that are implemented in the Dnipro river basin for the
purpose of its ecological improving;
- taking into account the national debt conversion of the series countries of Central
Europe to members of the Paris Club into the Natural Environment, initiate the questions
on the analogous debt conversion of Ukraine into priority national programs including the
Dnipro basin ecological improvement ones.
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