This Monday, at an operational meeting in the regional state administration, they were supposed to discuss the results of the implementation of budgets of all levels for 11 months of 2004 and the state of repayment of wage arrears in the region. According to the information reports submitted by the relevant departments and territorial subdivisions, the following situation has developed in the region regarding budget filling and payment of wage arrears. For January-November of this year, 683,337.9 thousand UAH was received to the general fund of budgets of all levels in the territory of the region, which is almost 98% of the assigned amount; 16.3 million hryvnias were not contributed to the budget. At the same time, the state budget received 36.6 million less, while local budgets were overfulfilled by 20.3 million. Against the calculated plan for the reporting date, calculated on the basis of 1/12 of the norm of planned revenues, the implementation of local budgets was ensured at 109.7%. Of the 429 local budgets, 36 were not fulfilled against the calculated plan for the reporting date, calculated on the basis of 1/12 of the norm of annual planned revenues. Compared with the corresponding period of 2003, local budget revenues increased by 1.8 million UAH, or by 0.9%. A decrease in revenues compared with last year occurred in Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Horokhiv, Lokachi, Lutsk, Liuboml, Ratne, Stara Vyzhivka, Turiisk, and Shatsk districts and the cities of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Kovel, and Lutsk. According to statistical data, wage arrears as of November 1, 2004, at 110 debtor enterprises amounted to 5.4 million hryvnias. This constitutes 32.9% of the arrears at the beginning of the current year. In the rating for Ukraine in terms of the rate of reduction of arrears since the beginning of the current year, the region ranks 7th. The largest share consists of debts at industrial enterprises — 49.2% (2.7 million UAH), in construction organizations — 15.0% (0.8 million UAH), in organizations engaged in real estate operations — 13.8% (0.75 million UAH), in agricultural enterprises — 10.5% (0.57 million UAH), in transport enterprises — 3.5% (0.2 million UAH), in trade — 3.4% (0.2 million UAH), and others. Wage arrears are absent in Volodymyr-Volynskyi and Kamin-Kashyrskyi districts. There was 1 debtor enterprise each in Ivanychi, Kovel, Liuboml, and Turiisk districts, and 2 each in Horokhiv, Lutsk, and Rozhyshche districts. It was not possible to work through these two important issues for the region, since many participants of the meeting were unable to get to the session due to the blocking of the premises by representatives of “Nasha Ukraina” led by regional council deputy Volodymyr Banada. It was he, accompanied by two young people, who prevented the meeting at the head of the regional state administration from being held. According to the press service of the Volyn Regional State Administration, “such interference in the activity of a local executive authority is unacceptable.” Therefore, letters were sent to the name of the head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Volyn region, Oleksandr Kmita, and the prosecutor of the Volyn region, senior justice adviser Andrii Hil, regarding an assessment of the actions of the mentioned persons and the taking of appropriate response measures provided for by law.