Enterprises that plan to receive or confirm the status of critically important in July 2026 must already provide an average salary of at least 25,941 UAH in June, otherwise they may lose the right to reserve workers. Businesses should also carefully monitor compliance with the new booking quotas, as exceeding them could lead to the cancellation of the status of a critical enterprise. This was stated by the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture upon request. According to current standards, the average salary at an enterprise must be at least three times the minimum wage. As of today it is 25,941 hryvnia. The Ministry of Economy explained that when reviewing documents, government bodies will take into account indicators for the last calendar month. That is, for enterprises that will submit documents in July, it will be the level of the average salary for June that will determine. The ministry also recalled that the decision to recognize an enterprise as critical, in force as of June 2, 2026, continues to be valid until the end of the established period, but no longer than until September 1, 2026. In the coming months, many companies will be forced to re-go through the status confirmation procedure according to the updated rules.
Before submitting documents, you must wait until the revision of industry and regional criticality criteria is completed. All government agencies must update relevant criteria by June 10, 2026. After this, enterprises will be able to contact the relevant ministries or other authorized bodies with a package of documents to obtain or confirm their status.
The Ministry of Economy notes that decisions on new bookings will be made during the summer, but only after the review of the criteria is completed. The new rules provide for the possibility of re-applying in case of loss of critical status.
If an enterprise is excluded from the list due to changes in industry or regional criteria, it will have the right to re-submit a package of documents taking into account the new requirements and apply for a new status. The state has left more lenient conditions for a certain category of business.
We are talking about critical enterprises that actually operate in areas of possible or active hostilities. A lower average wage threshold has been retained for them - more than 2.5 times the minimum wage, which now amounts to 21,618 hryvnia. Resolution No. 692 made changes not only to salary criteria. From now on, employees who already have the right to a deferment from mobilization for other reasons, as well as employees working part-time, will be taken into account in the reservation quota for only one place of work. The changes will take effect from September 1, 2026. According to the government, the new mechanism should make the reservation system more transparent and fair. The government paid special attention to monitoring compliance with established quotas. If the enterprise exceeds the permissible number of booked workers, the manager will be obliged to submit an application to cancel the excess bookings within ten working days through the Diya portal. If this obligation is not fulfilled, the enterprise risks losing its status as critically important..
The changes also affected resident companies of the special legal regime of Diya. City. Now resident status alone is not enough to confirm the criticality of an enterprise. The company must comply with legal requirements for salary levels and confirm this with tax reporting for the last six months.
According to the Minister of Economy of Ukraine Alexey Sobolev, increasing the salary criterion will increase revenues to the state budget. According to government estimates, if all companies bring the level of remuneration of reserved workers to new standards, the budget could receive an additional 10 to 13 billion hryvnia. According to the Ministry of Economy, more than 1.3 million workers are now booked in Ukraine. The ministry predicts that this figure will not change significantly in the future..