1. Position Paper Ukraine
Regional SME
Position Paper Ukraine
WG Ukraine
27 January 2017

2. SMEs provide Jobs, Growth, Prosperity
June 2017 – Regional SME Position Paper developed, consulted, agreed, adopted and presented and in public
6 countries
5 SME Focus issues
5 SME Focus sectors
SMEs provide Jobs, Growth, Prosperity

3. SME 1 – SME Business Environment
EU SME Policy Consensus
Post Soviet – EU SME - Contrast in Concepts
SMART Regulation – EU Regulation
SME Focus on Local, Regional, National Level
Holistic Transformation of the way business is done in Ukraine and all 6 countries
In close Partnership PPD – Dialogue- Consensus –All stakeholders united for SME consensus and success
Doing Business success like in Macedonia and Georgia!

4. SME Issue 2 Innovation-Skills
Skills –VET – Training – Dual Education
Entrepreneurship Education
Digital Learning – e-education -
Labor Market Reform and Information
Research – Technology – Innovation Culture
Start up and fail and start up again culture
Creativity – Curiosity – Entrepreneurship-Innovation – Marketing Culture

5. SME Issue 3 SME Access to Finance
SME Focus of Banking
Micro Finance System
Accounting Reform – Easy Financial Planning
Land and Banking –Kataster and Collateral
Financial Education – Business Planning
Payment delay and enforcement
New SME access models – Leasing, Factoring, Purchase order Financing
Promotion of e-payment- fight against informality

6. SME Issue 4 Tax and Customs
VAT EU compatible system – implementation
Corporate Tax- SME Tax level
Income tax
Social Security contributions
Tax implementation- fines, by force, corruption
Customs costs, speed, corruption
Physically time and costs of compliance

7. SME Issue 5 Access to Markets
Quality Infrastructure
Standards and certification
Integration in EU Industrial Value Chains
Out scouring of services Information Access
Market access and promotion, trade fairs
Internationalization Support with Export training and promotion
Strategic Analysis of opportunities
Regional market Integration

8. SME Sector 1-Tourism Tourism key sector for service culture
SME start up
Restaurant, Accommodation, Activities, Information, IT, Training and Education
Regional dimension
Employment intensive, Gender dimension
Hospitality and Service culture
Country marketing – Identity Building

9. 2 Agriculture and Food Processing
Major opportunity –already a export driver
Move up the value cycle – process – marketing –own brands
Regional Development – SME - Tourism
SME farming – improve living and income condition all regions of Ukraine

10. 3. Green Economy – Energy Efficiency
Construction Industry
Construction Material Industry
Renovation and Energy Efficiency
Renewable Energy – Water, Wind, Biomass
Recycling Sector
Eco-Tourism
Regional Development – Sustainable Development

11. SME sector 4 – IT and e-Services
Major Employment potential
Keeping good jobs in country by outsourcing
Innovation potential
E-Government Transformation e-Public Service
E-SMEs Digitalization
E-Payments
E-Education from School to Universities

12. SME Sector 5 Manufacturing
Technical capacities of past industrial experts
Market access to EU, US, Canada
Transformation of Industrial assets –new SMEs Incubators and Clusters
Devaluation- Competitiveness
Transport logistics- Borders –Customs, VAT
Business Parks for SME Manufacturing – old sites-new live by transforming them in commercial zones
Opening of Procurement and corporate governance rules of State & State Industry and State Infrastructure companies