OREANDA-NEWS.  January 18, 2013. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov demands to intensify introduction to the Parliament the draft law "On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Public Procurement". He stated this at a meeting of the Cabinet.

The bill offers until December 31, 2015 to provide the right to a customer, in the case of procurement procedures to install to bidders qualifying criteria such as the availability of their production capacity and/or service centers in Ukraine.

"The proposed changes are intended to support primarily domestic producers during public procurement procedures therefore, on the development of domestic production", Mykola Azarov said.

At the same time, he added, the following changes to procurement procedures encourage foreign companies and enterprises to intensify the creation of production and service centers in Ukraine.
"So, the adoption of this law is a powerful support to the program of activation of domestic production, which is being developed by the Government", the Prime Minister said.