on 30 September , the RRR4U consortium will present a new issue of the Monitoring of the Implementation of the IMF Programme and EU Assistance under the Ukraine Facility, which takes into account the results of the implementation of commitments as of the end of September 2024. In addition, the event will include a special topic on the reform of the State Customs Service.
In the first half of September, Ukraine and the IMF reached an agreement at the expert level on the fifth review of the four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme. Ukraine may receive the next tranche of about USD 1.1 billion after the revision is approved by the IMF Executive Board, which is expected in October.
During the event, experts will present an assessment of the implementation of the IMF programme’s structural benchmarks and the indicators of the Ukraine Plan. In addition, one of the structural pillars of the Memorandum with the IMF is the reform of the State Customs Service of Ukraine. The fulfilment of this commitment will be a special topic of public discussion. on 17 September, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the draft law 6490-d on the staffing of the customs service.
- Date: 30 September 2024
- Time: 15:00 – 16:30
- Format: offline (Kyiv, venue will be sent to all registered participants additionally) and online in ZOOM
- Language: Ukrainian (simultaneous translation into English will be provided)
- Pre-registration by the link.
Event programme:
- 15:00 – 15:05 – Introduction (Yuriy Romashko – IAA, moderator);
- 15:05 – 15:15 – Fifth review of the IMF programme: results and new commitments (Maria Repko, Maxim Samoiliuk – CES);
- 15:15 – 15:25 – Ukraine’s plan: progress and future commitments (Alyona Korogod – DiXi Group);
- 15:25 – 16:00 – Expert discussion: “Customs reform: what is it about and why is it important?” (Oleksandra Betliy – IER, Yaroslav Zheleznyak – MP, member of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, Oleksandr Moskalenko – Director of the Customs Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (participation is to be confirmed);
- 16:00 – 16:25 – Q&A session.
Live broadcast will be here: