Today, on behalf of
Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev held the meeting concerning
vexed topics of consumers’ payments for natural gas in January of the current
year and paying off the debt for 2006, Cabinet press office reported.
Andriy Klyuyev invited
to attend the meeting the heads of those regions, where the situation proves
the worst in the country.
According to the
analysis, for 25 days of January consumers’ liabilities for spent natural gas have
raised by 750 million hrn. At this, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Lugansk,
Kharkiv and Kherson regions account for 54% of this debt.
According to the funds of the Regional State
Administration for the stated period, the average level of payments along
Ukraine makes up 32,5%, where pays from the stated category of consumers in Lugansk
region stands at 20,8%, Dnipropetrovsk region at 22,2%, Kherson 23,6%. The
worst numbers for January of this year were shown by enterprises of communal
heat-and-power engineering. The average level of payments through Ukraine
stands at 29%.
Vice Prime Minister
authorized the heads of regional state administrations, under their personal
responsibility, to provide for mobilization of all possible financial resources
in the regions to perform timely payments for gas consuming and clear
liabilities for the spent gas amounts. He charged to activate the work of fuel
energy complex committees whose responsibility is to provide weekly monitoring
of money from the population, received by the heat supply enterprises, and the
state of payments for the used gas, made by the latter; to take strong measures
to raise the responsibility of the heads of heat supply enterprises concerning
timely payments for the spent gas volumes.
