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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the volumes of monthly distribution of natural gas among the regions for the period from Aug. 1, 2014 to April 1, 2015.

The decision is stipulated in cabinet resolution No. 296 of July 9, 2014 posted on the government’s Web site.

Over the period it is planned that 14.011 billion cubic meters of gas
will be consumed, including 7.532 billion by industrial consumers and
other economic entities, 5.853 billion cubic meters by heat generating
and heat supply companies and 625.954 million cubic meters by budget
organizations and institutions.

According to the document, the monthly gas distribution will be
revised by the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities
Economy Ministry of Ukraine, Energy and Coal Industry Ministry,
Naftogaz Ukrainy and public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz. The
decision to start and finish the heating season is made by executive
power agencies of rural, settlement and town councils or by local state
administrations under agreement with the Regional Development,
Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry and Energy and Coal
Industry Ministry.

Gas will not be supplied to municipal heat supply companies if they
do not act within the requirements of cabinet resolution No. 217 of June
18, 2014, which approved the procedure for the distribution of funds on
special accounts to pay to the guaranteed supplier.

The Cabinet also ordered the Health Ministry and the Regional
Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry to
work out the appropriateness of the reduction of the normative air
temperature in premises by 2 Centigrade.