The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine resolves:

1. To establish, from January 1, 1996, apartment rent within the norms determined by current legislation, in the amount of 10 thousand karbovantsiv per 1 square meter of total area (including value-added tax). For excess area, the apartment rent rate shall be increased by a factor of 1.2.

2. The Government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regional state administrations, and the Kyiv and Sevastopol city state administrations shall:
- when determining the level of tariffs for the population for water supply, heat supply, and wastewater disposal services, ensure, from January 1, 1996, reimbursement by the population of the cost of these services (including value-added tax) in the amount of not less than 60 percent;
- strengthen control over the correct application of tariffs for housing and communal services for the population, take measures to save fuel, energy, and other resources (coal, gas, electricity, water, chemical materials, etc.), not allowing unjustified overstatement of the cost of these services;
- increase demands on housing and communal enterprises to improve the quality of services provided to the population.

3. The Ministry of Economy, together with the Ministry of Finance, the Antimonopoly Committee, the Main State Tax Inspectorate, and the State Committee for Consumer Rights Protection, shall conduct inspections at housing and communal services enterprises and the "Ukrgaz" corporation, based on the results of work for 1995, to verify the correct attribution of costs to the cost of products (works, services), the application of prices and tariffs, the quality of service provision, compliance with the requirements of antimonopoly legislation, as well as the use of budget funds (subsidies) in the regions, and by April 1, 1996, report the results to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Ye. MARCHUK
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine V. PUSTOVOITENKO
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