In order to improve the regulatory environment aimed at the development of small and medium-sized businesses, and to improve the level of financial and business services for interested representatives of entrepreneurial structures in Western Ukraine, the European Union project "Improving the Environment for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ukraine" has been implemented in the territory of Volyn and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts for two years now. Thus, yesterday in Lutsk, the managers of the relevant project (representatives of the Dutch consortium "ECORIS"), with the support of the Volyn Oblast State Administration, held a final conference at which the project organizers summarized the results of two years of work in the regions. Let us recall that this project was carried out in such areas as: development of the sphere of business services for entrepreneurial circles of the oblast (business centers were created in Kovel, Lyuboml and Volodymyr-Volynskyi), provision of accounting and legal consultations to employees of credit unions with the aim of ensuring access of small and medium-sized business representatives to microcrediting, and conducting training seminars on regulatory policy issues for civil servants of the oblast.