OREANDA-NEWS. On October 31, 2008 The Council of Entrepreneurs within the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has addressed with an official letter leaders of all the deputy factions in Kyiv Council with a demand to protect small and average business of the capital from the policy of Chernovetsky.

The Head of the Council of Entrepreneurs Oxana Prodan announced. By her conviction, within recent time Kyiv municipal authority resorts to system and complex actions to destroy small and average business.

“Monopolization of the so-called “small architectural forms”, intentions to introduce dues on keeping and exploitation of economy objects, project of soaring of communal services cost, permanent increase of rent – all these are the constituents of not very promising for the business of the capital, systematic work of authorities,” Oxana Prodan says.

To the strong belief of the Head of the Council of Entrepreneurs a desire of the local power to drive the businesses hard, till the last kopeck, will lead to the converse effect: firstly, the enterprises are to lose their place, in the aftermath – services, in the end – working places and tax payments to the budget.

“We ask the deputies’ factions in Kyiv Council not to vote for the decisions which harm the economy of the city and to assist business to maintain social dialog with the local authorities. Besides, we will initiate approval of normative acts on moot points at the level of the Cabinet of Ministers and profile ministries. It will disable efforts of local authorities to press businesses, irrespective whether it is Kyiv, Kharkiv or Odessa,” Oxana Prodan summed up.

The Council of Entrepreneurs within the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was set up with a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 13.02.2008 №54, its composition approved with an order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 11.06.2008 №836-р comprising 68 representatives of unions and associations.