OREANDA-NEWS. On December 17, 2008 The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine officially recommended to the Kyiv municipal state administration to reconsider and fix economically grounded tariffs for passenger conveyance by electric transport of communal enterprises the Kyiv Metropoliten and Kyivpastrans. This decision was approved unanimously by members of the Committee at a special sitting into this issue.

So, December 11 of 2008 the Antimonopoly Committee instituted a proceeding against the Kyiv municipal state administration, the Kyiv Metropoliten enterprise and Kyivpastrans enterprise. The grounds for that had become a motivated appeal of the Economics Minister concerning groundless raise of transport fares. It was just the Ministry of Economics which led a workgroup created by the Government on the initiative of the Antimonopoly Committee that tackled grounds for introducing new tariffs.

As was defined by the State Inspection on Price Control within the Economics Ministry, wrong expenses to the tune of over UAH 300 million had been estimated in the process of calculation of underground fares.

“We have been working for a month already but we haven’t been provided with comprehensive materials yet,” the Head of State Price Inspection Natalya Nemodruk announced during the event.

Representatives of the Kyiv municipal state administration and heads of communal enterprises the Kyiv Metropoliten and the Kyivpastrans who took the floor during the meeting haven’t presented clearly grounded data to support appropriateness of introduction of fourfold increased tariffs.

Acting Head of Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Olexandr Melnychenko informed to review the tariffs 10 days are fixed, and in the aftermath the AMC would approve a final decision concerning applying of strict sanctions at the sum of up to 10% annual revenue of each of the enterprises.