The Ministry of Economy and Environment of Ukraine predicts that after strengthening the criticality criteria, about 10-15% of enterprises that currently have the status of critical importance may lose it. Minister of Economy and Environment Oleksandr Kravchenko stated this on TV.
"We expect that approximately 10-15% of enterprises will not comply with the new, stricter rules of criticality," he said.
According to the minister, there are currently about 600 criticality criteria established by various ministries, other state bodies and regional military administrations. Decisions to revise 90% of these criteria have already been made and must be approved by the Ministry of Justice. The department plans to finalize the rest of the criteria in the coming weeks.
After the approval of the updated requirements, the authorities will conduct an inspection of all enterprises that currently have a critical status. Those companies that do not meet the new criteria will lose it, but will be able to reapply for the status.
For business, the status of a critical enterprise is of fundamental importance - it gives the right to reservation of employees from mobilization and a number of other benefits related to ensuring work during the war. Therefore, the revision of the criteria may affect the staffing and operational sustainability of a part of the enterprises that will lose their status.
We will remind that in October the Cabinet of Ministers changed the reservation rules and created the Coordination Center, which will coordinate the updated criticality criteria. At that time, the Ministry of Economy emphasized that the revision of the criteria itself does not mean an automatic revision of the statuses of all enterprises: companies that meet the criteria, which will remain unchanged, will retain their status.
