The Cabinet of Ministers will consider at its regular meeting on Wednesday, November 19, a concept of a program to create wholesale markets of farm produce.

Ukrainian News learned this from the agenda of the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, posted on the Web site of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The meeting will start at 10:00.

Agrarian Policy Minister Yurii Melnyk will deliver and Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn a report on the situation with management of companies in the spirit and alcoholic beverages industry.

The Cabinet of Ministers will also consider a concept of the program for energy efficiency for 2010-2015.

The government is also likely to endorse criteria for estimation of risks from economic activities of recruiting companies involved in job placement abroad. The government will decide periodicity of state inspections at the companies.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will give a press conference after the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada on September 18 passed a draft law at the first reading to simplify taxation on wholesale markets of farm produce.

MPs Serhii Tereschuk, Kateryna Vaschuk of the Bloc of Lytvyn faction, MP Ivan Kyrylenko of the faction of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, and MP Mykhailo Polianchych of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense Bloc faction, who are the authors of the draft law, believe that the creation of a system of wholesale markets of farm produce will allow bringing out of shadow 20-30% of farm produce of the small- and medium-agribusinesses. The creation of the system of wholesale markets of farm produce will also secure holding of open trades between producers and consumers and result in fair prices for both sides, in the opinion of the MPs.