Since the zones with special regimes of activity began functioning until January 1, 2005, 768 investment projects have already been approved, including 556 in territories of priority development (TPD) and 212 in special economic zones (SEZ). This was reported to "proUA" by the press service of the Ministry of Economy and European Integration of Ukraine.
The total estimated cost of all approved projects is 6.67 billion US dollars. In December 2004, 266.5 million UAH flowed into budgets of all levels from the implementation of investment projects.
The state received the largest revenues from business entities of the TPD of Donetsk region – 214.6 million UAH (80.5% of the total revenues for December 2004).
At the same time, during December 2004, SEZ and TPD entities received benefits worth about 733.4 million UAH. The largest benefits were granted to the TPD of Donetsk region – 586.9 million UAH (80%), SEZ "Donetsk" – 89.5 million UAH (12.2%), SEZ "Zakarpattia" – 37.3 million UAH (5.1%), TPD of Volyn region – 4.9 million UAH (0.7%).