OREANDA-NEWS. On December 29, 2008 The Football Federation of Ukraine, Ukrinform information agency and state television and radio broadcasting organizations have created a system of information maintenance of gearing-up and holding of Euro-2012. An information centre “Euro-2012 – Ukraine” started its activity.

Every week sees press conferences with representatives of authorities, local self-government, the Football Federation of Ukraine, enterprises and institutions involved into the Euro-2012.

In 2008 with an aim to elucidate the process of preparing to the Euro-2012 25 new TV programs and rubrics and 24 radio programs and rubrics have been launched. For 11 months of 2008 the state television and radio organizations have prepared and broadcast TV programs with total timeline of around 9565 minutes, while radio programs – 4804 minutes. Six trails of social advertisement have been readied and broadcast.

A peculiar attention is paid to the topic of preparation to the Euro-2012 by broadcasting organizations of the towns which are to host the championship. 5 TV  bridges between Kyiv and towns-hosts with participation of members of local authorities, sport, building, tourist, hotel and other organizations attracted to gearing-up to the Euro-2012.

Though, as members of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting Collegium stressed a system activity into elucidating of the process of preparation of Ukraine to the Championship in foreign media was not organized on the proper level. The number of negative statements and insinuations in foreign media significantly increases the amount of positive accounts about Ukraine’s preparedness level to the Euro-2012.

The flaws in the work of Euro-2012 – Ukraine Information Centre also take place. The funds were not applied in full, envisaged for financing of the Information Centre in 2008, head of this centre hasn’t still been appointed and employees of Ukrinform are working part-time there.

The Collegium has approved a decision for Ukrinform to activate cooperation with foreign information agencies, to provide them with materials in foreign languages and to increase amounts of publications of objective information about the state of preparing of Ukraine to the Euro-2012 in the foreign mass media.