Seminar - Improving Business Environment in Ukraine: Lessons from Central European Reforms
Dátum: 20.10.2005
Date: 16 May 2005
Place: International Centre for Policy Studies, Conference hall, vul. Pymonenka 13A, Kyiv, Ukraine (Location Map)
Agenda:
9:00-9:30
Registration of participants
9:30-9:35
Roundtable commences
Vira Nanivska, ICPS Director
9:35-9:45
Foreword
Viktor Pynzenyk, Minister of Finance, Ukraine
Ivan Miklos, Minister of Finance, Slovakia
Political Economy of Reforms
9:45-10:20
Eugen Jurzyca, director, INEKO institute, Slovakia: Political Economy of Reforms
Peter Mihalyi, former deputy Minister of Finance, Hungary: Key lessons from Reform Struggle in Hungary
Panelist: Ivan Stefanec, Business Alliance of Slovakia
10:20-10:45
Stanislav Gurenko, Head of the Committee on economic policy of the parliament of Ukraine: How the Parliament can influence reforms
Panelists: Oliynyk, Director of the Institute for reforms, Lytvytsky, World of Business magazine
Tax system reform
10:45-11:10
Ivan Miklos, minister of finance, Slovakia: Tax Reform in Slovakia
Panelists: Maciej Grabowski, Gdansk Institute for Market Economics, Vladimir Popik, Posam (Slovak IT firm’s experience with tax reforms)
11:10-11:45
Taras Dovhy, head of the subcommittee on tax reform of the Parliament of Ukraine: Tax reform in Ukraine
Panelists: Martynenko, ICPS expert, Burakovsky, Director of the Institute of Economic Reforms,
11:45-12:15
Coffee break
Privatization, Reprivatization and the role of the state
12:15-12:45
Maciej Grabowski, Gdansk Institute for Market Economics, Poland: Privatization, Reprivatization and the role of the state
Panelists: Peter Mihalyi
12:45-13:05
Valentyna Semenyuk, Head of State Property Fund: Privatization, reprivatization in Ukraine
Panelists: Oleksandr Paskhaver, advisor to the President of Ukraine, Andriy Blinov, editor of economy and finances section of the magazine "Ekspert Ukraina"
Administrative barriers in business
13:05-13:40
Ivan Stefanec, president, Business Alliance of Slovakia, Slovakia: Administrative barriers in business
Panelists: Ivan Carnogursky, IPEC Group, Slovakia, Jan Amos Havelka, White&Case, Czech Republic
13:40-14:00
Leonid Chernovetsky, Head of Subcommittee, parliament of Ukraine: Administrative barriers in business in Ukraine
Panelists: Oleh Soskin, Director of the Institute for Society Transformation, Lyapina, Member of Parliament of Ukraine
14:00-14:15
Conclusion
Viktor Pynzenyk, Minister of Finance, Ukraine
Ivan Miklos, Minister of Finance, Slovakia
Eugen Jurzyca, director, INEKO, Slovakia
Moderator: Ihor Shevliakov, ICPS