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Kozyrna Karta has been selected as the only operator for servicing the fan zone in downtown Kyiv during the hosting the Euro 2012 European football championship, Anatoliy Holubchenko, the deputy head of Kyiv City Administration, has said.

"We held a tender to select a single operator of the fan zone. Kozyrna Karta won the tender," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Holubchenko said that Kozyrna Karta would assume all expenses on establishing, servicing, managing and guarding the fan zone.

"If there wasn’t a single operator, Kyiv city would have to spend around Hr 40 million on this," he said.

Holubchenko also said according to the calculations of the operator, no profit is seen now.

"Finally we’ve agreed that the main benefit is a political one. We don’t have the experience to manage a fan zone in the championship period," he said.

He said that Kyiv city administration would fruitfully cooperate with the operator in the servicing of the fan zone.

Holubchenko said that the duties of the operator that will service the fan zone will be setting up facilities, cleaning the territory, installing screens and a stage, organizing and holding of concerts, and providing security services.