President Viktor Yushchenko signed the law passed by parliament that obliges local budgets to compensate housing and utility service providers for underpriced tariffs, the press service of the head of state reported. \n \n \n \nThe law "On Amending Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine 'On Prices and Pricing'" was passed by parliament after reconsideration on September 22, 2006. \n \n \n \nIn particular, Article 9 of the Law "On Prices and Pricing" was supplemented with a part of the following content: "Executive authorities and local self-government bodies that by their decision set prices (tariffs) for housing and utility services at a level lower than the amount of economically justified costs for their production (provision) are obliged to reimburse the business entity for the difference between the approved price (tariff) amount and the amount of economically justified costs for the production (provision) of the specified services at the expense of the respective budgets." \n \n