OREANDA-NEWS. July 18, 2013. More than 3 million individual entrepreneurs are registered in Ukraine. Thus almost every 15th Ukrainian is an entrepreneur. This was stated by Chairman of the State Registration Service of Ukraine Dmytro Vorona.

"There are more than 3 million individual entrepreneurs in our country. Over the past six months we have an increase in the number of those wishing to start their own business, for every 10 thousand people 663 individual entrepreneurs are registered. In other words, we can say that every 15th Ukrainian is a businessman," Dmytro Vorona said.

Chairman of the State Registration Service added that the largest number of individual entrepreneurs is registered in Donetsk region (more than 252 thousand). The smallest number of individual entrepreneurs is registered, according to the Chairman of the Service, in Sevastopol (over 26 thousand) and Kirovograd region (45 thousand).

Recall that from 1 July 2013 the functions of registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs submitted to the State Registration Service of Ukraine.

"By the results of the first two weeks of July, that is the first two weeks of implementation by the State Registration Service of Ukraine powers on registration of business, we have carried out more than 65 thousand registration activities, including 2029 legal entities and 7235 individual entrepreneurs have been registered. As of today, almost all recorders have workplaces, seals, electronic key access to the Unified State Register of legal entities and natural persons - entrepreneurs. Registration takes place in the normal mode," Dmytro Vorona said.