The Verkhovna Rada adopted, in the second reading and as a whole, a bill providing for a number of changes concerning the functioning of industrial parks in Ukraine. UNN reports this, citing a parliamentary session.
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Draft Law No. 12117 "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning the Improvement of the Functioning of Industrial Parks" was supported by 270 members of parliament.
Under the bill, the concept of an "eco-industrial park" is introduced—an industrial park on whose territory the initiator of the establishment of the industrial park, the management company, participants, and other entities of the industrial park conduct activities in the field of industrial symbiosis, implementing the best available technologies and management methods, and which meets the criteria determined by the Cabinet of Ministers, as well as the environmental, economic, and social requirements established by law.
The procedure for obtaining eco-industrial park status and the specifics of its functioning will be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
The concept of an "industrial park" itself is also being changed—it is a territory designated by the initiator of the establishment of the industrial park in accordance with urban planning documentation and equipped with appropriate infrastructure, within which the initiator of the establishment, the management company, participants, and other entities of the industrial park conduct economic activities.
The document stipulates that economic activities involving the production of excise goods may not be carried out within an industrial park, except for the production of biofuels, the production of biocomponents, the generation and/or storage of electricity, including from alternative energy sources, the production of passenger cars, bodies for them, trailers and semi-trailers, motorcycles, vehicles intended to transport 10 or more people, and vehicles for transporting goods.
Economic activities involving the issuance and holding of lotteries, the conduct of gambling, and the cultivation of plants included in the List of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors may also not be carried out within an industrial park.
The concept of "industrial symbiosis within an industrial park" is also introduced— cooperation on a contractual basis between the initiator of the establishment, the management company, participants, and other entities of the industrial park concerning:
- the production, performance, and supply of goods, works, and services, and the exchange thereof;
- the processing of waste generated at one production facility by other facilities (except
for waste disposal);
- the use of by-products;
- the reuse of water, the treatment of wastewater, and its subsequent
reuse within the industrial park;
- the combined production of electricity and heat (cogeneration);
- the production and use of energy from renewable energy sources and/or alternative
fuels.
The draft law introduces amendments to the rules for establishing industrial parks on state- and municipally owned land. In particular, the right to establish parks on such land is granted to executive authorities, local self-government bodies that transfer such land into ownership, as well as lessees of state- or municipally owned land plots who meet the requirements for using them to establish an industrial park.
Restrictions are established concerning the establishment, development, and functioning of industrial parks. In particular, the initiators of the establishment of parks may not be persons who:
- are ultimate beneficial owners or participants holding 10% or more of the shares and are citizens or entities of the russian federation, belarus, Iran, or North Korea;
- are legal entities registered in states classified by the Cabinet of Ministers as offshore zones, or legal entities more than 50% of whose authorized capital is directly or indirectly owned by legal entities registered in such states;
- are legal entities established and registered under the laws of the russian federation, belarus, Iran, or North Korea, except where their assets have been transferred for management to the ARMA in accordance with the procedure established by law;
- are business entities economically linked to the aggressor state within the meaning of the Tax Code of Ukraine;
- are included in the Unified State Register of Persons Who Have Committed Corruption or Corruption-Related Offenses;
- are subject to sanctions imposed by Ukraine, the United States and the EU;
The requirements regarding the land plots on which industrial parks may be located are changing. Currently, the area of a land plot or the combined area of adjacent land plots must be at least 10 hectares and no more than 1,000 hectares. The document removes the 1,000-hectare limit, while retaining the requirement that the area of adjacent land plots must be at least 10 hectares.
Also, under the draft law, office premises, financial institutions, marketing and advertising facilities, catering establishments, hotels, dormitories, hostels, dual-use structures, renewable energy facilities and energy storage systems may be located within an industrial park.
A list of documents that must be submitted to include parks in the Register of Industrial Parks is also being added:
- a copy of the initiator’s decision to establish the industrial park;
- a copy of the industrial park concept;
- information from the State Land Cadastre regarding the land plots and from the State Register of Rights to Immovable Property regarding the immovable property located on them (if available);
- the names of the management company and participants, other entities of the industrial park, and an extract or statement from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations (if available);
- a copy of the land plot/land plots lease agreement, together with all amendments thereto, and an extract from the State Register of Rights confirming registration of the lease right to the land plot;
- a copy of the lessor’s decision approving the industrial park concept;
- an extract from the urban planning documentation concerning the territory designated for the establishment of the industrial park;
- a copy of a certificate concerning the use of the buildings located on the plot (if available);
- documents confirming the possibility of financing the development and/or operation of the park in accordance with the concept.
In the future, the decision to include an industrial park in the Register will also specify the area of the industrial park.
The list of grounds on which an industrial park may be removed from the Register is also being expanded: if there is no management company after two years; if the area of the land plot or the combined area of the industrial park’s land plots is reduced to less than 10 hectares; if economic activity that may not be carried out within an industrial park is conducted; or if the period for which the industrial park was established has expired.
As reported by one of the draft law’s authors, Dmytro Kysylevskyi, "as of the end of 2025, 37 factories had been built or were under construction in Ukraine’s industrial parks," noting that "manufacturing enterprises in the parks continue to open throughout 2026."
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