At the Sustainable Resource Management Forum, held on December 7-8, the first Ukrainian report under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard was presented. From now on, everyone has an opportunity to discover information about key Ukrainian oil and gas fields, license holders, production volumes, as well as the payments companies made to budgets of all levels. The data introduced in the EITI report is well detailed, reconciled and cover the year of 2013.
On December, 7, Kyiv saw the launch of the International Sustainable Resource Management Forum, organized by the World Bank and DiXi Group Analytical Centre, a civil society organization, with participation of experts from the EITI International Secretariat, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry and the International Renaissance Foundation, representatives of the EITI National Secretariat, the Independent Administrator (Ernst & Young), international experts, civil society organizations and government representatives. The Forum is dedicated to the launch of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Ukraine and publication of Ukraine’s first report pursuant to the EITI international standard.
In order to emphasize the importance and relevance of the first Ukrainian report under the EITI Standard to be published in coming weeks, DiXi Group Analytical Centre released a video, urging to review the report to combat corruption in the oil and gas sector.
Roman Nitsovych, DiXi Group Think Tank program manager, attended a regional workshop on the development of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
The declared focus on decentralization of government should be expanded to the mining sector regulation. This idea was expressed by Olena Pavlenko, President, Dixi Group Analytical Centre, during the “International Practice of Oil and Gas Management” round table.