OREANDA-NEWS. December 5, 2007.Rosatom State Corporation will be registered by the end of this year, the head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy (Rosatom) Sergey Kiriyenko told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday.

On Monday the President of Russia ratified a law on the establishment of Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation.

Kiriyenko said that the law has finalized the legislative work for reforming Russia’s nuclear industry. Now, within 10 days after the publication of the law, the state corporation should be registered. Kiriyenko is sure that this will happen by the end of this year.

The supervisory board of the corporation may be appointed in Dec while the transfer of functions from the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy to Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation is to take place in the first quarter of 2008.

The process of corporization of the 55 federal state unitary enterprises to be incorporated into Atomenergoprom holding is also near completion. This process is expected to be completed by Feb 2008.

“By the end of the first quarter of 2008 the formation of Atomenergoprom and Rosatom State Corporation will be completed. This will mark the end of the structural reforms. But this will not be the end as the reform is not the final goal but just an instrument for developing our nuclear industry,” Kiriyenko said.