OREANDA-NEWS. March 16, 2011. To achieve the level of 2008 in the construction industry we have to pass the hard way of investment saturation of the economy. Viktor Tyhonov, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine told in the interview to LIGABusinessInform.

"If to talk of comparisons, investments for the construction industry are oxygen, which is impossible without its full-activity. Decreasing flow of oxygen - a person starts to choke. The same happens with the building in case of non-payment of investment "- Viktor Tikhonov said.

He reiterated that to achieve the level of 2008 in the construction industry it is necessary to provide investment inflow. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine gave an example when in 2008, only investments in housing construction reached over 35 billion UAH, the bulk of which (over 20 bln. UAH) were investments of the population. "So, we need to provide no lower inflow of investments into housing construction” – said Viktor Tyhonov.

According to Viktor Tyhonov, the first major step in this direction has already made. It was simplified the conditions of access to construction investment market of the country. "For the second step, we also prepared a good condition - anticipated release of the supply of construction works from paying VAT”.

The next step, according to Deputy Prime Minister, should be returning of confidence of private investors to property developers.

“Great expectations in this direction we hold on creation and regulation of self-regulatory organizations in the construction, which takes some of the state controlling functions” noted Viktor Tyhonov.