Recently, the Government has approved the decision to simplify the approval of construction of mobile-communication base stations.
This process have been accompanied by a lot of “barriers” and accumulated of corrupt elements in the past few years. Particularly, base stations of mobile operators are placing their equipment in existing real estate facilities, such as on the roofs of buildings (satellite dishes or industrial air conditioner are installed on the same principle). However, starting from April 2011, they started to implement the “Procedure of execution of preparatory and construction works” and the “Procedure of putting finished construction facilities into operation”, which are used for construction of real estate on land plots with relevant certificates of ownership or land use.
In fact, the process of placing the equipment and putting it into operation was increased on the average by one month, a number of intermediary companies that offer a quick resolution of issues, appeared.
The Better Regulation Delivery Office expects that the decisions adopted by the Government will be enacted in the nearest future. This is because, according to various estimates of experts and market participants, the “quick” resolution of issues related to the construction and putting facilities into operation has cost more than 150 million hryvnas for businesses in the past two years!