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Minister Waldemar Buda: Helping Ukraine, expanding trade and supporting the Polish entrepreneurs in Ukraine are our priorities

09.05.2022

Improvements in the Polish – Ukrainian trading, support for the Polish export to Ukraine, aid for the Ukrainian entrepreneurs as well as the support provided by Poland in the Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and OECD, followed by supporting Odessa in its race for the World Expo 2030 organisation – are the highlights of discussion between the Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Waldemar Buda, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Julia Svydyrenko.

Minister Waldemar Buda and Ukrainian Minister of Economy Julia Svyrydenko

What we need in the face of aggression of the Russian army is the extraordinary actions and rapid responding to the emerging challenges. Poland, including MEDT, maintains continuous contact with the Ukrainian party. Our priorities for the moment lie in the activities aiming to improve channelling of the Polish aid to Ukraine, intensify trading and provide support to the Polish exporters willing to continue their operation on the Ukrainian market

– said Waldemar Buda, Minister of Economic Development and Technology.

We are determined to push ahead with the membership of Ukraine in OECD and European Union. Accession to the OECD may constitute for Ukraine – as it was for Poland – a pivotal preparatory period as regards the implementation of the Western economic, regulatory and commercial standards and a great introduction before joining the EU

– stressed the Head of MADT. The meeting with Minister Svyrydenko was also attended by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland Andrii Deshchytsia.

Polish aid to Ukraine

Since the beginning of the Russian army’s aggression to Ukraine, that is 24 February 2022, Poland has hosted more than 3.1 million of the Ukrainian citizens. In March, the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology amended the regulations on trading in goods, technologies and services of strategic importance for the state security and maintenance of international peace and security.

In effects of the newly introduced amendments, the rules of purchasing the protective equipment at the territory of Poland and its export and transit at the territory of Ukraine  have changed. Purchase of body armours, military and police helmets, face, limb and other body parts guards in order to deliver them to Ukraine no longer requires the Ministry’s of Interior and Administration licence.

The Ukrainian entrepreneurs-refugees may also continue their business activity at the territory of our country on a temporary basis to use their capacity to reconstruct Ukraine in future. Obtaining the personal ID no. entitles them to establish and run a company on the same principles as the Polish citizens.

The Ministry of Economic Development and Technology launched also a dedicated tab on its website https://www.biznes.gov.pl/.

It includes information, available also in the Ukrainian language, on how to establish a business activity in Poland, take a job and employ the Ukrainian citizens.

Supporting Odessa as the candidate for the Expo 2030 organisation

Waldemar Buda, Minister of Economic Development and Technology Minister, send the official letter to the Secretary General of the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris to exclude Russia and Moscow from among the candidates competing for the World Expo 2030 organisation. The reason behind this initiative of the representative of the Polish government is the aggression of the Russian army to Ukraine that already lasts more than 70 days. At the same time, Poland supports the candidature of Odessa as the host city of this event.

Moscow (Russia) and Odessa (Ukraine) were suspended by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) by 7 September 2022, which is the deadline for the candidate cities to submit their documentation on the Expo organisation. Despite this fact, these cities are allowed to submit the application forms. The other potential host cities include also: Rijad (Saudi Arabia), Busan (South Korea) and Rome (Italy). The final decision on selecting the winner will be made at the end of 2023.  

Polish-Ukrainian trading

In recent years, Ukraine has strengthened its position as the important export partner of Poland. Since 2016 the Polish – Ukrainian trading has been increasing on a regular basis. In 2021 it grew by 40% compared with the previous year, reaching USD 12.5 billion. At the same time, in the corresponding period, the import from Ukraine boosted by more than 70% up to the value of USD 5 billion. In 2021, Ukraine was also the 15th export partner of Poland with approx. 2.2% share in the total Polish export.

Data for the first two months of 2022 demonstrate the increase in Polish-Ukrainian trading by 35% compared with the corresponding period in 2021, which amounted to USD 2 billion. This proves that the Polish entrepreneurs have been and continue to be interested in cooperation with Ukraine.

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