Cabinet has promised the International Monetary Fund on a quarterly basis to raise the price of natural gas for the population, said at a briefing the Head of Mission Fund in Ukraine Dzheyla Pazarbaziolu. According to her, this should improve the financial position of the NAC Naftogaz Ukraine, in addition, the government has an opportunity to strengthen the protection of the poorest segments of the population.
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Ukraine's population consumes about 21 billion cubic meters of gas suppliers that are exclusively Ukrainian miners. Now its value is between 402 to 622 grn /thousand. cubic meter, depending on the level of consumption. In doing so, miners receive much smaller amounts: Ukrnafta and Chernomorneftegaz - 199 grn /thousand. cubic meters, while the Ukrgasproduction - 179 UAH /thousand. cubic meters. The greater part of the cost of fuel make up the taxes and extra Naftogaz.

The last time the cost of gas for the population increase was in December 2008 - 35%. And more recently, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that the price of it until the end of the year will not change: I am categorically opposed to an increase in the price of gas for people. I promised that this year it will not change, and I will keep our promise. Contact the press secretary of the premier Marina Soroka, in order to find out what made the prime minister to abandon his words, it was not possible.

The National Electricity Regulatory Commission, regulating rates for gas and was assured that if the Government's proposals to raise the cost of fuel received, they promptly review. However, the Commission noted that the government never filed such proposals without taking into account the views of Naftogaz. In NJSC increase prices by 30% consider it necessary, the press secretary of Naftogaz Valentin Zemlyanskiy. According to calculations by Maxim Sheina of IC Brokerkreditservis This will allow the company to annually receive an additional $ 450-680 million during the same year, the price of gas for the population couldgrow by half, said a source close to Naftogaz.

If a price increase will be approved in Ukraine will increase the profitability of gas production, confident DK Ukrgasproduction. Chief Financial Officer Ukrnafta Vladimir Pustovarov stresses that now the cost of extracting the gas, taking into account the investment in new fields of the order of 580-600 UAH /thousand. cubic meters: The current price of 199 UAH can not even recoup production, not to mention find and develop new sites. We have every year, declining production, which increases the already high dependence on Russian gas.

At the same time, the price increase may lead to non-payment crisis, says Deputy Director of Science and Technology Center Psyche Gennadij Ryabtsev. Raising prices doubled during the economic crisis would mean that some consumers will not be able to pay for it. Подорожания Based on the experience in previous years, the committee estimated, the share of payments could be reduced from 95% to 70-75%, - a member agrees to Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of ECPs Sergei Tulub.

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