Since the beginning of 2004, the debt for consumed electricity of institutions and organizations of the Volyn region that are financed from the state budget has increased by 1.1 million hryvnias and amounts to 3.1 million hryvnias. The debt of these facilities for consumed natural gas has grown by 266 thousand hryvnias and amounted to 573.5 thousand hryvnias. This was reported at a meeting held by the deputy head of the regional state administration, Oleksandr Syminskyi, to consider the issue of the state of payments for consumed energy carriers by institutions and organizations financed from the state budget. as reported by the department for internal policy affairs of the regional state administration, at the meeting a decision was adopted for the management of VAT "Volynoblenerho" and VAT "Volynhaz" to warn, by May 25, 2004, institutions and organizations that have significant debt about disconnection from energy supply in the event of failure to fulfill contractual conditions regarding the state of payment.