Dear Volyn residents! Dear fellow countrymen!
We consider it necessary to declare our concern that in the business sector recently the practice of using an inflated US dollar exchange rate when setting the price of goods (at the official rate of 5.31 hryvnias per dollar) has become widespread. Given the stability of the US dollar exchange rate to the national currency, at which the NBU conducts operations during Trading sessions, as well as the uninterrupted execution of payments under foreign economic contracts of Ukrainian residents, the National Bank of Ukraine sees no reasons for the rise in price of imported goods on the domestic market. There are also no reasons for the rise in prices of domestically produced goods. The inflation rate, according to NBU forecasts, will not exceed 10 percent by the end of the year, as was stated earlier. The banking system is operating stably in its usual mode. Thus, in our opinion, today the price increase is speculative in nature and requires the intervention of the relevant bodies, which are entrusted with control over preventing unjustified price destabilization on the consumer market. In this regard, we declare that within our powers we will ascertain the subjective and objective factors causing the rise in prices and exercise control to prevent their unjustified increase. We appeal to the citizens of the region to inform the relevant bodies about instances of significant increases in the price of goods. We believe that the increase in the dollar exchange rate, and consequently in prices, is absolutely unfounded, and on this basis we call on business entities not to raise prices for goods without economic grounds for doing so, not to try to earn excess profits at the expense of consumers. Based on the foregoing, we state that an agreement on cooperation has been reached between the Head of the Volyn Regional Council and the relevant state control bodies in the region for the purpose of maintaining control over the situation and preventing speculative trends on the consumer market of the region. Instances of unjustified price increases will be considered by us as those leading to price destabilization on the consumer market and to increased social tension in the region, and will be given an appropriate legal assessment.
The statement was signed by: Head of the Volyn Regional Council Dmytruk V.P., Head of the Office of the National Bank of Ukraine in the Volyn Region Bielik O.V., Head of the State Tax Administration in the Volyn Region Hryniuk M.V., Head of the Volyn Regional Territorial Branch of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Volodin A.V., Deputy Head of the Volyn Regional Office for Consumer Rights Protection Panasiuk L.P., Deputy Prosecutor of the Volyn Region Kurenda V.Y., Head of the State Price Control Inspectorate in the Volyn Region Kuibida T.Ya., Volodymyr-Volynskyi city mayor Sahaniuk P.D., first deputy of the Kovel city mayor Hych Ya.Ya., Lutsk city mayor Kryvytskyi A.F., Novovolynsk city mayor Sapozhnikov V.B.