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The President signed laws on corporate governance reform and electronic agricultural receipts

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Liza Brovko
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President Volodymyr Zelensky signed laws No. 5593d on corporate governance reform and No. 9266 on electronic agricultural receipts. Their signing was important for Ukraine to receive the March tranche from the World Bank for $1.4 billion.

Corporate governance reform

Law No. 5593d amends some legislative acts to improve the corporate governance of companies in which the state is a shareholder (founder, participant). In particular, it brings Ukrainian legislation into line with the OECD

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is an international organization that unites 37 countries of the world, most of which are countries with a high income of citizens and a high index of human development and are considered developed.
principles of corporate governance, so that the management of state-owned companies is more transparent and efficient. The law should simplify and modernize financial planning processes, expand the powers of supervisory boards, and resolve problematic management issues.

Here is another innovation of the law:

  • supervisory boards will conduct annual independent audits of financial statements; will have more authority to approve the remuneration and remuneration of the heads of state-owned enterprises and the appointment and dismissal of the heads of economic structures, etc.;
  • provide for the transfer of responsibility for approving financial plans to supervisory boards for all state-owned companies that have a supervisory board. The Cabinet of Ministers will agree on the appointment and dismissal of managers of those enterprises whose management functions it performs.

Electronic agricultural receipts

Law No. 9266 will create a new financial instrument that will be a modern analogue of paper agricultural receipts

Electronic agricultural receipt is an independent subject of circulation on the capital markets, can be an object of purchase and sale, a source of profit.
. The law will also expand the range of entities that have the right to issue electronic agricultural receipts at the expense of agricultural service cooperatives
Agricultural service cooperatives are non-profit organizations owned by agricultural producers who manage it and provide services to members of the cooperative to increase their profits.
 (they are the owners of land plots or the right to use them).

The law provides that the debtor can fulfill his obligations under the electronic agrarian note by pledging the future harvest, live animals, products of animal and plant origin, products of their primary processing, guaranteeing the rights and legal interests of creditors.