To register a company in Georgia and actively develop your business not only nationally but internationally as well. It is quite possible that a country like Georgia can help you meet your business expectations.

Annually, Georgia confidently rises in the ranking of countries with the most comfortable business conditions, according to DOING BUSINESS. This country’s government has created favorable conditions for attracting investment, including the attractiveness of the tax system and simplicity of opening and running a business for both nationals and non-residents. In Georgia, as in Ukraine, there are different legal forms of legal entities, but the simplest in management and most common form of doing business is limited liability companies.

Register an LLC in Georgia

The required for registering an LLC package of documents is filed with the territorial directorate of the National Agency for State Registry, which is at the House of Justice or with authorized persons of the State Registry. In particular, the following documents are filed:

• An application for registration of a legal entity.
• The limited liability company’s charter.
• Document of appointment of the company’s director.
• Certificate of contribution costing (if the contribution is made by property).
• International passports of the company’s director and founders (for non-residents—certified by the authorized body of the person’s country of origin by affixing Apostille).
• Charter of the founder’s legal entity, an extract on its registration, and international passports of its director and founders (for non-residents—certified by the authorized body of the person’s country of origin, by affixing Apostille).
• Receipt for payment of the state duty.

All documents must be in the state language of Georgia or have a translation into Georgian with the translator’s notarized signature.

The LLC founders can be individuals and legal entities without any restrictions on the residence of such individuals or entities.

The price of company registration in Georgia

A company registration in Georgia will be a great start for you if you value your time, because here, the registration process takes only one business day. If you need to register a legal entity urgently, then you will be able to receive an extract on its registration on the day of submission of documents, in case they are formalized with due diligence.

Taxes for Georgia companies

Georgia’s tax system is also a loyal and attractive component for attracting investors and developing the country’s economy. Thus, in Georgia, the corporate tax is:

• 15%—income tax.
• 0–18%—value added tax.
• 5%—dividend tax.
• 20%—personal income tax.

In addition to the general tax system in Georgia, there are the following tax regimes:

• The virtual zone.
• Free industrial zones.

The virtual zone for IT companies.

To register an IT company in Georgia for investors wishing to engage in information technology, the most advantageous option is to obtain the status of a virtual zone entity. The advantages are that an entity who exports its services abroad is exempt from all other corporate taxes, including the tax on the export of software products that it develops. The only tax to be paid by an entity with the virtual zone entity tax status is a dividend tax of 5%.

In order to get the virtual zone entity status, it is sufficient to submit an electronic application on the Ministry of Finance of Georgia’s website, which is reviewed within ten days. After you have been granted that status, you may already receive within two days a certificate confirming your special tax status. This certificate is valid for one year, after which it can be renewed.

Free industrial zones for companies in Georgia

A free industrial zone (hereinafter referred to as the FIZ) is an area with certain boundaries and a special status, subject to additional tax benefits and not covered by the competence of local governments.

It is a kind of free zone with additional tax benefits that are not covered by the competence of local governments.

On the FIZ territory there is allowed any business activity, except such as is prohibited by law, namely:

• Manufacture and sale of weapons and ammunition.
• Manufacture and sale of nuclear and radioactive substances.
• Import, storage, manufacture, and (or) sale of narcotics and psychotropic substances.
• Import, storage, manufacture, and (or) sale of tobacco products and (or) tobacco raw materials (except for import for own consumption).

Once registered in the FIZ, the entity must obtain a license to conduct the relevant business activity.

The entity registered in the FIZ is exempt from all taxes except the import and export tax between the FIZ and Georgia—a tax rate is 4%.

No matter which tax system you choose, you will need to open a corporate account with any Georgia bank by filing an appropriate application form with almost the same package of documents as for the entity’s state registration.

At first glance, the business registration procedure in Georgia is standard and simple, however, as practice shows, the registration authority often refuses because of the inconsistency of the documents filed. Therefore, we recommend that you consult the Rezultat law firm’s experts, who will provide you with competent advice or professional preparation of all necessary documentation, which will become a solid basis for a successful career and easy running of your business.

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Petro Bondarenko from Talnivshchyna never received the certificate of the category 1 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster victim. For a long time, the local public safety department fobbed off the man with formal replies.

As a result, the man appealed to court. However, there was no positive outcome of the trial. Such a case is not isolated. After all, only for the period 2017–2018, there were filed about 120 similar claims according to the data of the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.

About the case

Petro Bondarenko had a disease which was caused by the Chernobyl NPP disaster and led to his disability. That fact was confirmed by the certificate added to the medical and social expert commission’s examination report. So, accordingly, he applied for the issuance of category 1 certificate. However, the Administration for Social Protection of Population of Talne RSA didn’t submit an application to the Department of Social Protection of Population of Cherkasy DSA to grant the complainant the Chernobyl NPP disaster victim status.

Note, that persons who as at January 1, 1993, had permanently resided or worked in areas of intensive radioecological control over four years, according to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of January 20, 1997, No. 51, are recognized the Chernobyl NPP disaster victims and are eligible to receive benefits and compensation, stipulated by Law No. 796-XII.

Petro Bondarenko appealed to Cherkasy District Administrative Court with a corresponding claim. In his statement of claim, Bondarenko requested to declare illegitimate the Talne relevant administration’s decision to reject his application. In addition, due to systematic refusals to grant him the Chernobyl NPP disaster category 1 victim status on similar grounds, as evidenced by the Unified Registry of Judicial Decisions, namely the cases No. 823/1817/17 and No. 823/551/18, he requested the court to initiate disciplinary proceedings against those responsible.

In turn, the Administration for Social Protection of Population of Talne RSA did not admit the claim. Legal reasoning affirms the following: due to the Law of Ukraine of December 28, 2014, No. 76-VIII “On Amendments and Considering Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Void and Without Effect,” in the list of radioactive contamination areas there is no intensive radioecological control area where the complainant resides, as a result of exclusion of Article 23 of the Law of Ukraine “On Status and Social Protection of Citizens Who Are Chernobyl NPP Disaster Victims,” which was providing benefits and compensation to persons classified as the Chernobyl NPP disaster category 4 victims.

However, as can be seen from the case file, the complainant has all the legal grounds for granting him the status of the Chernobyl NPP disaster category 1 victim and issuing him the category 1 victim certificate, since Article 14 of Law No. 796-XII stipulates that the Chernobyl NPP disaster category 1 victims include the disabled from among the Chernobyl NPP disaster victims, in whose cases there was established a causal link between their disability and the Chernobyl NPP disaster, which was established, in particular, by the medical and social expert commission No. 1.

The court noted that the complainant had actually been examined by the MSEC on July 3, 2018, i.e. after the entry into force of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments and Considering Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Void and Without Effect” of December 28, 2014, No. 76-VIII, but to solve the issue on granting the complainant the category 1 victim status, the fact he had been examined by the MSEC after January 1, 2015, had no legal value because the court found that at the time of the MSEC’s examination the complainant had the Chernobyl NPP disaster category 4 victim status, which was to be maintained for lifetime, unless the category was changed.

The court decided to completely satisfy the administrative claim. Therefore, the actions of the Administration for Social Protection of Population of Talne Regional State Administration were declared illegitimate.

A troubled case that can be called typical

According to the data of the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, for the period 2017–2018, there were filed about 120 claims, in which the defendant was the Administration for Social Protection of Population of District State Administration and the complainant was an individual with the Chernobyl NPP disaster victim status, with the existing category 4 certificate.

 The social protection body systematically violates the rights of people most in need of state protection. Hundreds of cases came to court and were resolved in favor of people, but officials did not make any conclusions and continued to violate the rights of socially unprotected individuals. These people continue to go to work and receive a salary from our taxes though still keep violating the law. And how many people gave up and didn’t go to court? The lack of officials’ personal responsibility leads to the fact that they forget their defined by the Law of Ukraine “On State Service” duty to respect the dignity, prevent violations of the rights and freedoms of the man and citizen.

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Managing Partner of the Rezultat law firm Maxim Polishkevych participated in the International Investment Forum 2018, which took place in Cherkasy on October 12.

Premises of Bogdan Motors Automobile Plant hosted the Forum. The participants were dozens of leading experts in the fields of export, consulting, as well as representatives of government, small and medium business. The event had been held in the В&В format for the third time. The Forum 2018’s main message was “We are masterfully creating the future now.”

In general, the participants were to attend 4 panel discussions with 20 speakers: “Doing Business Now: Today and Tomorrow,” “Export Now: New Opportunities,” “Invest Now: Why Now,” “Industry Now: Reboot.”

Meanwhile, for heads and top managers of companies, there was held the business workshop “How to Find a Business Partner in Germany?”   from the GIZ project “Fit for Partnership with Germany.” Participants had the opportunity to be interviewed for a free internship in Germany.

“Our forum is a platform for people who got used to act and generate. The event’s main message is “We are masterfully creating the future now.” We’ve chosen the plant shop not by chance, as this facility symbolizes changes for the better, transformation. For to make business develop, one should become competitive, should risk and modernize,” head of Cherkasy District State Administration Yuriy Tkachenko noted during the opening ceremony.

One of the forum speakers was Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ukraine Du Wei. The Ambassador spoke about the history of development of the People’s Republic of China and formation of key economic sectors. China’s leadership places a large bet on informatization of production as the third industrial revolution. China develops as well the alternative types of energy, being the world market leader in this area. He noticed that actually the largest exporters in China were small and medium businesses.

According to the Ambassador, Ukraine had great prospects, but despite skilled personnel, there was a lack of funding.

In general, during the discussions, the speakers talked about government programs to support small and medium businesses, Ukraine’s export strategy and possibilities for its implementation, considered the start-up entrepreneurs’ prospects to enter the external markets. Those who had already managed to sell products to the European buyer, shared their experience of the “culture of doing business.” Also, within the framework of discussions, foreign investors shared their experience of cooperation with Ukraine.

After the discussion, the attendees had the opportunity to continue the conversation at the B&B meeting.

According to Maxim Polishkevych, the Forum has once again demonstrated the high investment attractiveness of Cherkasy district and the significant economic potential of the region.

At the Forum, I met many of our Clients, as well as representatives of companies that have already invested in Cherkasy district and those who are only going to do so. The Forum has gathered many local, national, and international business people. In the context of market globalization, the boundary between such entrepreneurs is becoming thinner. Entrepreneurs of Cherkasy district have to compete with world leaders, while world leaders have to adapt to local features. The Rezultat law firm is, as always, happy to introduce foreign investors to local businessmen and helps Cherkasy businessmen to enter foreign markets

Maxim Polishkevych says.

In total, the Forum was attended by more than 200 representatives of business circles.

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To celebrate the Defender of Ukraine Day and the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, there took place in Cherkasy the All-Ukrainian Children’s Aikido Festival Cossack Entertainment.

The event was held at the school number 28. The organizers of the festival were the Ukrainian Aikido Aikikai Union and the Aikido and Budo Academy Ryushinkan (Cherkasy).

The Rezultat law firm supported the sports initiative as well.

In total, about a hundred children and 5 instructors gathered at the Festival. All interested instructors and athletes (aged 8 to 16) who had at least 1 year’s experience in martial arts, and admitted by their instructors, were able to participate.

The festival program was designed for two days, and they prepared for participants the Visiting Sites of Cossack Glory quest, trainings, mobile games (fun starts), and exhibition performances. They also treated the athletes to

Cossack kulish.

Young defenders were awarded with diplomas of the All-Ukrainian Aikido Festival participants. 

According to Viacheslav Kostiukov, President of the Aikido and Budo Academy Ryushinkan, such measures promoted sport, a healthy lifestyle, and martial arts in particular.

“Martial arts are for those who want not only to improve their physical form, but who strive to control their own bodies and learn to defend themselves. It is very important to cultivate these qualities in the younger generation. And such festivals definitely contribute to this,”

Viacheslav Kostiukov noted.

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Thus, 27 cases dealt with challenging fines for non-accrual and non-payment of wages for overtime work, for employee’s failure to serve the two-week period, for failure to enter into a written employment contract, as well as challenging fines for failure to pay the minimum wages, violation of the inspection procedure, etc.

Fines for non-accrual and non-payment of wages for overtime work

In particular, in one of the suits, a legal entity challenged the penalty for non-accrual and non-payment of wages for overtime work. As the complainant said, after the State Labor Administration inspected him last April, the company got fined for UAH 297 thousand. At the same time, the complainant insisted that there were no reasons for imposing a fine under Articles 79, 106, 115 of the Labor Code of Ukraine.

“Instead, in the inspection visit act, on the basis of which the challenged resolution was issued, there was only registered the violation by the complainant of the requirements of Article 116 of the Labor Code of Ukraine while accruing and paying wages for overtime hours for 2017, which were paid on January 5, 2018 (not on the day of dismissal),” the case file mentioned.

However, given that the complainant did not carry out monthly payment for overtime hours, as well as failed to timely settle up with the employee upon his separation from service, the court concluded that the recorded violations incur liability to pay triple minimum wages, not tenfold ones, as the State Labor Administration demanded. The court found the decision of the State Labor Administration illegitimate.

Termination of an employment contract upon the employee’s request without serving the two-week period

Another illegal fine from the inspection entrepreneurs consider as well sanctions for the termination of an employment contract upon the employee’s request without his/her serving the two-week period. The application of the established term of serving is the employer’s right, but not the duty.

In this case, the lawyers recommend the employer to ensure that the work performed by the employee and the accounting for labor costs are accurately recorded according to the established procedure.

Failure to enter into a written employment contract

Among the cases the lawyers dealt with, 8 cases concerned challenging the inspection’s fine for failure to enter into a written employment contract. Most of them were resolved in favor of the complainant company.

The findings of the inspections were based on the inspectors’ assumptions and were not supported by proper and admissible evidence. For the complainant and those who performed the relevant works had actually entered into a civil contract.

As the lawyers note, the main difference between contractual (civil) relationships and labor ones is that the labor law governs the process of labor activity, its organization. While under the civil contract, the labor activity organization process is beyond it, for the contract’s purpose is obtaining a certain material result. A contractor, unlike an employee, does not obey the rules of internal labor regulations, organizes his/her work himself/herself, and performs it at his/her own risk.

Illegal inspections

In practice of the Rezultat law firm, one of the inspections of the State Labor Administration was declared illegal by the district administrative court. Since at the time of the inspection, the enterprise head was on a business trip, and the enterprise registration address was incorrectly indicated in the inspection documents.

At the same time, the court abolished the order to fine the enterprise for violating labor laws, namely, for failure to inform the State Fiscal Service territorial body on the recruitment of employees. For that information was included in the periodic reports that were rendered to the SFS territorial body for the timely accrual and payment of the unified social tax amounts on the sizes of accrued and paid amounts of wages.

Practical training at the enterprises

The complainants also won the cases concerning challenging the Administration’s fines for violation of practical training procedure.

The fine for almost half a million hryvnias was successfully challenged due to an unsubstantiated and groundless inspectors’ conclusion. According to them, the company had not signed contracts with practitioners. However, the current legislation of Ukraine does not stipulate signing of labor contracts with persons who “pass the curricular practical training at the employer’s place in accordance with the agreements on curricular practical training entered into with vocational-technical schools.” There were such agreements between the educational institution and the complainant entrepreneur.

The Rezultat lawyers emphasize that when registering interns in the workplace it is necessary to have a referral for practical training, which is issued by the educational institution.

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Today, there has come into force the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Improving the State Registration of Rights to Real Estate and Protection of Ownership Rights,” which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on October 6, 2016, and has been already called by lawyers and entrepreneurs the Anti-Raiding Law.

Anti-Raiding Law

The Law’s main points concern the introduction of amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On the State Registration of Proprietary Rights to Real Estate and their Encumbrances.” Thus, the Law provides that the state registrar immediately informs the owner of real estate, with respect to which the application for implementation of proper registration acts is filed, which, in the opinion of lawmakers, will make it impossible to implement registration acts concerning real estate of legal entities without the will of the owner (founder).

Innovative was also the fact that implementation of registration acts is suspended on the basis of the court decision, that has taken legal force, to ban the registration acts implementation or on the basis of the real estate owner’s application for the prohibition of registration acts implementation with respect to his own real estate. The state registrar immediately informs the real estate owner about the suspension of registration acts on the basis of a court decision prohibiting the registration.

In case there are registered applications for implementation of registration acts, the state registrar, who reviews such applications, immediately informs the relevant applicants about the suspension of registration acts.

As for the property owners’ notification, the Ministry of Justice explained that it will be made via SMS-informing. However, to take advantage of this service you need to take 3 steps:

• get a registration number of real estate;
• register in the property owner’s office and place the property under appropriate control there;
• indicate the phone number to which the messages will come.

The Rezultat law firm has found out that for today the service is not accessible to users, and therefore it’s unclear now, how the registrars will fulfill the requirements of the Anti-Raiding Law in this part.

It is also obligatory from now that the state registrar uses the information of the State Land Cadastre and the Unified Register of Permits that give the right to perform preparatory and construction works and certify the acceptance into operation of completed objects, as well as information about the return for modification, refusal to issue, cancellation, and annulment of the indicated documents. Also, the state registrar of proprietary rights uses information obtained through information interaction of the State Register of Rights with the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.

This, in our opinion, will prevent the falsification of documents contained in the above-mentioned registers, as well as will reduce the list of documents required for the registration of proprietary rights to real estate, since registrars will be able to download all the necessary documents online, while the applicants will just indicate the documents’ details in their applications.

However, as of today, the Unified Register of Permits is only beginning to be filled, while the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, although filled for many years, still does not contain all court decisions. It is therefore possible that registrars will have to make inquiries to the court in order to obtain properly certified decisions, and the consideration of property owners’ applications will thus extend for weeks or months.

The term for challenging decisions, actions, or inactivity of the state registrar increases in accordance with the Law from thirty to sixty days.

Key changes relating to the Law of Ukraine “On State Registration of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs, and Public Entities” include the mandatory notarizing the authenticity of signatures of the founder (participant) and their authorized individuals on the statutory document, the transfer act, the entity’s distribution balance, and a declaration of withdrawal from the company, which are submitted for state registration of the legal entity’s changes. While public organizations and charities do not have to notarize in their statutory documents the signatures on the decisions to modify, except when they independently set such a requirement in their statutory documents.

Specialists believe that preventive measures in the form of a notarized contract of sale of the legal entity’s charter capital share would be enough to avoid forgery of documents for the purpose of so-called asset-grabbings. The need to obtain the notarized certifying inscriptions in the statutory documents and distribution balances will only lead to a rise in the administrative service cost as a whole.

Some changes concern the Law of Ukraine “On Electronic Signature,” thus from now on, the ES will be provided solely in the personal presence of the signatories, including officials of enterprises.

In addition, the Law has strengthened criminal and administrative liability. In particular, the Criminal Code has been supplemented with a new article 191-1 “Submitting Forged Documents for State Registration of Rights to Real Estate and their Encumbrances” and there have been introduced a number of amendments to the COA, which provide for sanctions: from fines of 200–2000 tax-exempt minimum incomes, arrest, and up to imprisonment with the deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions.

Consequently, in general, it can be concluded that the principles provided in the Law are definitely a positive move towards the protection of the rights of real estate owners and corporate rights, but the effectiveness of its norms can be proved only by the practice of its application.

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Nonprofit organizations can be exclude

So that the controlling body doesn’t exclude a nonprofit organization from the Register of Nonprofit Institutions and Organizations after January 1, 2017, each of these organizations must bring its constituent documents in accordance with the norms of clause 133.4 of Art. 133 of the Tax Code of Ukraine. Copies of new constituent documents (in particular, the statute) must be submitted to the controlling body by the end of this year.

Among other things, the constituent documents should include the ban on distributing revenues or a part of them among the founders (participants), members of the organization, employees (except their remuneration and accrual of the single social contribution), the board members and other related parties.

In addition, the nonprofit organization charter should provide for the transfer of assets to one or more nonprofit organizations of the appropriate type or their adding to the budget revenue in the event of the legal entity’s termination (as a result of its liquidation, merger, division, affiliation, or transformation).

Nonprofit organizations

May include budget institutions, civic associations, political parties, creative unions, religious organizations, charitable organizations, pension funds; communities, associations, housing, cottage building, horticultural, and garage cooperatives (associations), condominiums, trade unions, their associations and organizations of trade unions, as well as organizations of employers and their associations, agricultural servicing cooperatives, cooperative associations of agricultural service cooperatives, and other legal entities whose activities comply with the requirements of the Code.

According to the CMU Resolution from July 13, 2016 No. 440, the State Fiscal Service shall ensure the sending to the nonprofit organizations included in the Register of Nonprofit Institutions and Organizations written requests for the provision within a month from the date of their receipt of the response on the compliance of the nonprofit organization with the requirements set forth in clause 133.4 of Art. 133 of the Tax Code of Ukraine, and copies of the certified organization’s constituent documents.

Olha Badaka comments on this

Specialist in the registration of legal entities of all forms of ownership of the Rezultat law firm:

 personally I and my colleagues do not recommend waiting for an official letter from the State Fiscal Service with a requirement to bring the constituent documents in line with the norms of clause 133.4 of Art. 133 of the Tax Code of Ukraine. That’s because there is a formal part in the Procedure for maintaining the Register of Nonprofit Institutions and Organizations. So, until recently the unprofitability indicator code was 0006. Now, according to the current normative legal acts regulating the Procedure for Maintaining the Register of Nonprofit Institutions and Organizations, the unprofitability indicator code is changed to 0032. Since the Registry is inherently an automated system, the need for a code change is urgently required for nonprofit organizations, otherwise the Registry simply will not readjust information about your company or institution, and from January 1, 2017, your institution may be among ordinary profitable ones with the general system of taxation (18% of profit).

So do not delay! The Rezultat law firm will gladly help you make all the necessary changes. Call (0472) 510047.

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In order to get a certificate about participation in the anti-terrorist operation, one has to provide the military unit with copies of the passport pages, photographs, a copy of the identification code, and written consent to the processing of personal data. The commanders in the military unit, in their turn, collect the necessary package of documents for consideration by the Defense Ministry and submit it within a month after persons’ completion of ATO tasks.

In particular: excerpts from orders, directives, regulations, military logs, service schedules, and other official documents containing sufficient evidence of the direct involvement of a person in the performance of ATO tasks.

If the commander (head) of the military unit (body, division) or other head of the establishment or institution fails to submit to the commission the documents necessary for obtaining the combat veteran status, the serviceman can independently submit the necessary documents for the certificate’s registration.

ATO participants submit documents to the commission of regional military commissariats and the city military commissariat of Kyiv.

For independent confirmation of participation in ATO, it is desirable to provide the following:

• a combat veteran certificate (issued in the military unit);
• an excerpt from the military unit’s order about being on the unit’s lists and performing tasks in ATO zone (issued in the military unit);
• a military ticket with a stamp (issued in the military unit and in some brigades).

Additional documents for proving participation in ATO:

• a certificate of participation in ATO;
• a certificate of attachment to the military unit;
• medical documents (a military medical commission, epicrisis of military hospitals);
• copies of travel documents (if available);
• copies of injury records (if available).

In the event of refusal to grant the combat veteran status, this issue may be re-examined by the departmental commission on the decision of the head of the relevant Ministry, other central executive body, or other state body (Defense Ministry, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), Foreign Intelligence Service, Administration of the State Border Guard Service, State Guard Department, Administration of the State Service of Communications, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU), the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine (SPSU)), an interdepartmental commission—on the decision of the Ministry of Social Policy.

Managing Partner of the Rezultat law firm Maxim Polishkevych comments on your rights: I can recollect a case from my experience, when the guy was not able to get the ATO participant certificate, as he could not submit the order for his transfer in ATO zone. Being from Mariupol, he began to serve prior to the anti-terrorist operation’s unfolding, and actually, that order didn’t exist. The Ukrainian officials’ mentality remains unchanged, thus the lack of a single piece of paper can create a moral dilemma: he cannot issue a certificate, since according to the Cabinet of Ministers’ resolution particularly such a document of such a model is required, and the official doesn’t care about objective reasons for impossibility of providing such a document. In this case, effective is communication, cooperation with ATO veterans and soldiers, deputies, or with the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the military command under which a soldier served.

Getting benefits for ATO participants:

 Your Rights. Medical ones:

• free receipt of drugs, medicines, immunobiological preparations, and medical products according to prescriptions of doctors;
• priority free dental prosthetics (with the exception of prosthetics from precious metals);
• free provision of sanatorium and spa treatment or compensation for the cost of individual spa treatment (the procedure is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine);
• using after retirement or change of employment the clinics and hospitals you were attached to with your previous job;
• annual medical examination and health check-up with the involvement of necessary specialists;
• priority attendance in health care facilities and pharmacies, as well as priority hospitalization.

Your Rights. Housing and communal ones:

• a 75 percent discount payment for the use of accommodation (rent) within the norms stipulated by the current legislation (21 square meters of total area of housing for each person that is constantly living in the residential premises (house) and is eligible for a fee, and additionally 10.5 sq. meters per family);
• a 75 percent discount for utilities (gas, electricity, and other services) and liquefied bottled gas for household needs within the average consumption rate;
• a 75 percent discount on the cost of fuel, including the liquid one, within the limits established for sale to population, for persons who live in buildings without central heating;
• priority provision of living space for people who need improvement of housing conditions, and priority allocation of land for individual housing construction, horticulture, and gardening, priority repair of residential buildings and apartments of these persons and providing them with fuel.

Your Rights. Other benefits:

• free travel by all types of urban passenger transport, public road transport in rural areas, as well as by suburban rail and water transport and suburban and interurban buses, including the intradistrict, intra- and interregional ones, regardless of distance and place of residence;
• payment of temporary incapacity benefit in the amount of 100 percent of the average wage regardless of the length of service;
• use of regular annual leave at a time convenient for them, as well as obtaining additional leave without pay for up to two weeks a year;
• pre-emptive right to be left at work in case of reducing the employee number or staff due to changes in the organization of production and work and right to employment in case of liquidation of an enterprise, institution, or organization.

The benefit list is available on the TSN website, in particular in the article entitled “What benefits are ATO participants eligible for?”

According to Maxim Polishkevych, in most local councils, they’ve made a decision to grant benefits to families of ATO soldiers during their stay in service. That is, before the soldier gets the ATO participant certificate, his family can already receive a number of benefits which are individually determined by local councils. But if your family member has been mobilized, i.e. recruited, you can apply to the local authority providing the benefits, the list of which is much wider than is fixed by law. You will be asked to provide a written in an arbitrary form certificate that your family’s member is in ATO zone.

Allocation of land plots for ATO participants

  Your rights are commented by Maxim Polishkevych:

The mechanism of obtaining a land plot for ATO participants is no different from the mechanism of obtaining a land plot by an ordinary citizen, and speculation on that issue was populism (the order of the State Land Agency to provide ATO soldiers with plots). In practice, ATO soldiers may have fewer bureaucratic obstacles and corrupt components in the process of registering rights to a land plot. In accordance with the law, a citizen applying for a free of charge land acquisition in private property must indicate where this land plot is located. If the ATO soldier knows where a free land plot is, then by submitting an application where he indicates the desired purpose of the land and its estimated area, attaching as well any graphic materials showing the land’s location, and adding for confidence the ATO participant certificate, he obtains permission to develop project documentation with little or no problems. In the future, private or state land management organizations are requested on a fee basis to develop documentation on land management, and based on that documentation, a decision is further made by local self-government bodies or the state authority on the provision of land in private ownership. The most difficult is to find a land plot free of possession by a third person. If you cannot find a free land plot yourself, you can apply to the village chairman, deputy, chairman of the district council or district state administration. If in the relevant district or locality they allocate arrays of land plots, that is fortunately sometimes done in practice, when some kind of array is taken and divided into 20–30 plots, the authorities will offer you some options.

The application is considered within one month by officials of the village or city council, or district state administration.

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The event was intended to discuss the issues of industrial real estate in Ukraine and, at the same time, to pay attention to both positive and negative trends in that sphere. Maxim Polishkevych, lawyer, Managing Partner of the Rezultat law firm was also involved in discussing the problems and prospects of industrial development and construction.

At the opening of the event there spoke Ihor Nikonov, President of KAN Development, Rostyslav Korobka, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine, Burak Pekhlivan, Head of the Turkish and Ukrainian Businessmen Association, Andrii Melnyk, representative of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

The forum had several thematic panels for discussion. During the first one, the experts presented successful cases of industrial real estate

In particular, the speaker of that section, Nataliia Kocherhina, partner, head of DLA Piper real estate practice, prepared the analytics for the land market and industrial real estate development in Ukraine. Nataliia talked about the development of the country’s industrial and infrastructural potential, and also drew attention to the positive factors of that economy segment’s development. Thus, one of such positive examples, according to DLA Piper, was that since 2015, about 60 plants had been launched in Ukraine, more than 30 power plants on renewable energy sources had been connected, in 2017, elevators with a total capacity of more than 400 thousand tons had been put into operation.

The second section was intended to discuss the topic of construction and infrastructure projects. The speakers shared interesting cases and positive changes in the country. For example, Andrii Konechenkov, chairman of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association, revealed the advantages and development prospects of the Ukrainian wind energy sector. Wind energy ranks 2nd in the structure of European energy resources and accounts for 16.7% of the total. In Ukraine, the share of energy produced from renewable sources is only 1.4%.

Andrii Antonenko, head of the UVT Group, and Serhii Mishok, Deputy Mayor of Zaporizhzhya, presented a case for the construction of a new airport terminal. The passenger traffic of Zaporizhzhya Airport had been increasing year by year and made 350 thousand people in 2017. The number of flights and airlines had also been growing. The strategic goal of the new project was to create a high-tech and progressive airport, increasing the region’s investment attractiveness.

At the end of the sessions, the forum participants continued the informal discussion on the topic of industrial development and construction in Ukraine.

Managing Partner of the Rezultat law firm Maxim Polishkevych notes that such events help to focus on the country’s development trends, while the cases discussed at such forums can be an interesting example for Cherkasy and Cherkasy district.

“The industrial construction market and its legislative regulation are constantly changing, therefore, such events are extremely important for maintaining communication between market participants. The forum brought together for a dialogue representatives of authorities, investors, and developers, which explained, by means of an example, the importance of development of industrial parks, alternative energy, and so on. In particular, the Nibulon company’s presentation became an excellent example of the agrarian sector and industry symbiosis.

In Cherkasy district, there have also been successfully implemented several industrial projects, while some are in the process of implementation. We are happy to accompany such projects. And events like this allow us to take on the best practices that we can apply for the benefit of our clients,” .

Maxim Polishkevych observes

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Rezultat has become a reliable partner for dozens of business organizations, companies, and individuals who ascertained the confidentiality, transparency, independence, and most importantly—the quality of the services provided and high performance.

“Nine years ago, the Rezultat law firm was a 12-square-meter office without windows, which had only a clothes hanger, a wardrobe, and a table, designed for two employees and one guest. But, besides equipment and furniture, Rezultat is primarily people. It was those people who believed that by providing professional legal services of the highest quality, one could take a decent place on the market. The people who believed that corruption was not a key factor in relations with the authorities. The people who believed that effective work and high professional standards could make a small local law firm successful.

Now, our firm is a leading player on the legal services market in the city of Cherkasy and Cherkasy district. We provide top quality legal services to many regional companies, including international ones. We’ve accompanied the attraction of millions of dollars of direct investment in the region. We help to make deals, invest, build, solve disputes. We promote the development of legal culture and legal services market in Cherkasy region”

Managing Partner and Founder Maxim Polishkevych says.

The law firm partners also share their experience of cooperation

“When faced with an urgent legal task, we turn to the Rezultat law firm. This firm always provides quality services in a timely manner, which is extremely important in our work”

Chief Technology Officer at Andersen Oleksandr Orlov points out.

 Among those who thank the Rezultat law firm for its efficient and high quality service delivery is Cherkasy Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which, over the years of long-term cooperation, has been convinced of the reliability of the partnership.

“The Rezultat firm has proved itself as a reliable partner and a professional team. The team style is marked by transparency, confidentiality, and creative approach to solving the most complex issues. Lawyers of the firm actively participate in conferences, seminars, and trainings, including those conducted on the basis of Cherkasy CCI”

President of Cherkasy Chamber of Commerce and Industry Serhii Pershyn expresses his position with wishes of new achievements and further dynamic development.

“What is important in resolving legal issues, is efficiency without loss in qualitative indicators. That’s how professionals work. During the years of cooperation with the Rezultat law firm, we are always convinced of its responsibility, discipline, and most importantly— performance. Every time, you help us minimize risks and improve the legal support of the firm. We appreciate an individual approach to customer requirements. I hope that over the years, you will only be thriving and improving.”

Vadym Ovcharenko, Head of the Tryzovahro farming enterprise, also acknowledged the firm’s productive work

At the same time, Maxim Polyshkevych expresses his deep gratitude to the Clients who while choosing between the corrupt deals and sometimes longer and more complicated but legitimate way of solving the problem, choose the second option.

“Like it was nine years ago, we are still young and ambitious. Though now, we are also wise and experienced”

the Rezultat’s founder adds.

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