UKR IC Agri & CP

completed

The project is structured into four policy components, which reflect the project objectives: 1. Regulation of agricultural input markets. The ultimate goal is to align the national regulation with the EU practice and ease the access to modern inputs (with the focus on seeds and crop protecting agents) for agricultural producers. Results will be measured in terms of compliance cost savings. Additional indicators will be finalized during the first year of the project activity, in particular to try to capture some of the benefits accrued to farmers. 2. Regulation of post-harvest storage and handling investments (focusing on grains and fruit/vegetables). The ultimate goal is to simplify the process of construction and further operating of storages, as well as process of harvest transportation, and increased investment in storages. Impact measures are i) compliance cost savings for storage investors and ii) increase in storage investment. 3. Food safety regulation. The goal is to align the national regulation with the EU rules, so domestic producers could get access to the EU market, to ease the regulatory burden on food producers. Regulatory simplification impact will be measured in terms of compliance cost savings. 4. Regulatory environment for resource efficiency in agribusiness. The goal is to simplify procedures related to agri-waste processing and producing of renewable energy. Impact will be measured by the value of i) compliance cost savings and ii) access to cheaper electricity. 5. There will be a cross cutting component on Awareness and Public-Private Dialogue in Agribusiness to accomplish the Objective 5. The results of this activity will be classified as outputs and will contribute to impacts of the objectives 1-4 and measured by the number of awareness events and the number of participants. The approach of objectives 1-4 will follow IFC?s standard process for regulatory simplification: (i) Use Standard Cost Model methodology to measure administrative burdens imposed by regulations on businesses; (ii) Conduct a legal analyses; (iii) Provide comprehensive recommendations to the government on streamlining non-aligned or complex regulations; (iv) Provide detailed recommendations to the government on cancellation of illegal or unjustified regulations; (v) Provide detailed recommendations to the government on any regulatory gaps / areas of non-harmonization with key export market requirements; (vi) Provide detailed recommendations to the government on ensuring sustainability of the regulatory policy; (vii) Direct regulatory improvement activities will be complemented by outreach and monitoring to raise awareness among the private and public sectors, and to support implementation of regulatory changes enacted with IFC assistance.