Business representatives appealed to the authorities with a request to remove a number of bureaucratic procedures as soon as possible, at least for the duration of the war, to help them overcome difficulties.. Some changes are considered necessary to be preserved even after the end of hostilities.. This is stated in the appeal of the European Business Association, which collected proposals from entrepreneurs to simplify business as much as possible..

The Ministry of Economy has already received the corresponding list of proposals.

On a temporary basis they offer:.

Cancel the list of critical imports and allow those companies that, despite the state of war, have the ability to carry out foreign economic operations to work.

Restore VAT refunds to exporters.

Liberalize the tax system in terms of taxes on labor: extend the ERU benefit for mobilized workers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to a legal entity (currently only sole proprietors enjoy the benefit) and provide the right to use such a benefit at the discretion of companies. In addition, to compensate from the State budget the salary that companies continue to pay to their employees called up during mobilization for military service.

Allow the import of non-food products to Ukraine without complying with the requirements for product labeling in Ukrainian.

Allow import of electrical and electronic equipment and radio equipment to Ukraine based on European declarations of conformity and CE marking.

Resume the return of the amounts of financial guarantees from the single treasury account of the State Customs Service.

Cancel veterinary laboratory control in the presence of an international veterinary certificate from the manufacturer.

Continue existing customs simplifications that do not provide for customs inspection of goods directly at checkpoints for 1 year.

Simplify the requirements for filling out cargo and customs declarations, establish acceptable deadlines for the submission of such documents after the end of martial law.

Postpone the date of entry into force of the technical regulation on cosmetic products.

Change the environmental impact assessment (AIA) procedure: switch to electronic document management, simplify the requirements for preparing AIA reports, etc..

Settle the issue of exemption from the payment of certain taxes and approve the list of territories in which hostilities are (were) conducted, etc.. - while there is no such official list, and, accordingly, there are no benefits.

Stop the running of deadlines for the elimination of violations on orders from state supervision / control bodies, the implementation of which fell on the deadlines during the period of martial law.

On an ongoing basis they offer:.

Cancel the conclusions of the sanitary and epidemiological examination for goods that are subject to the technical regulations adopted in Ukraine (After all, there are no such conclusions in the EU).

Allow the use of English in user interfaces (e.g. household appliances, cars).

Allow to provide instructions for use electronically.

Cancel state regulation of prices.

Regulate e-commerce issues so that dishonest entrepreneurs do not have the opportunity to sell goods / services online with impunity.

To allow obtaining permits for certain categories of construction not only from the State Environmental Inspectorate, but also from the TsNAP and territorial inspections of DIAM, to cancel certain bureaucratic steps when issuing an act of readiness for operation of an object.

Cancel in paper form the license for the wholesale/retail trade in alcoholic beverages, the obligation to keep records of excise tax stamps by type, cancel the special form of the consignment note for alcoholic beverages, etc..

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Recall that the European Business Association sent a letter to the Minister of Finance Serhiy Marchenko, in which he states that the resumption of industry in Ukraine will be impossible if the VAT refund for exporting enterprises is not returned.. EBA letter contains contradictions and omissions.