EurActiv: Push to privatise Ukraine’s Naftogaz gains speed
On 26 April a government draft bill was put forward in the Ukrainian parliament providing for the lifting of the ban on privatising the state-owned company Naftogaz, which is responsible for the transport and storage of gas.
If the parliament accepts the draft law, then the government will take the final decision to privatise. The draft bill also envisages lifting the ban on the lease of transit pipelines, excluding them from the list of assets that are not subject to privatisation, and liquidating the monopoly of state-owned companies on managing them. Ukraine’s gas pipelines are currently owned and managed by the state Ukrtransgaz company, a subsidiary of Naftogaz.