Pidlasa explained what contributions Ukraine will make to the EU after accession

Ukraine will have to contribute to the EU budget after accession, but will ask to postpone or reduce it. This was stated by MP, head of the budget committee Roksolana Pidlasa, reports UNN.

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Yesterday, together with the European Commission, we conducted an official screening of Ukrainian legislation regarding financial and budgetary provisions. 90% of the EU budget is filled with contributions from member states. When Ukraine joins the EU, we will also make such contributions. Although under the current system of EU budget distribution, it is believed that Ukraine will be a net recipient of EU money

She noted that Ukraine’s contribution will consist of:

• customs payments (the EU is primarily a customs union. Member countries keep only 25% of customs payments, and transfer 75% to the EU budget);
• VAT (0.3% of collected VAT, but no more than half of gross national income);
• monetary contribution, proportional to the size of gross national income (after receiving customs payments and VAT, the difference between planned expenditures and EU budget revenues is covered by contributions from member states – but in fact this is 70% of EU budget revenues);
• fee for unprocessed plastic packaging (0.8 euros per 1 kg of waste).

In the future, we will open an account at the NBU, where these funds will be accumulated for further transfer to the EU budget. We are asking for a transitional period (after joining the EU) for the collection of unprocessed plastic packaging, because we currently lack legislation and infrastructure for accounting for this waste

According to her, due to significant defense expenditures and post-war recovery, Ukraine will ask to temporarily postpone or reduce Ukraine’s contributions to the EU budget, which is part of the collected VAT and is calculated depending on the gross national income.

RecallUkraine and the European Commission began screening Ukrainian legislation under the last negotiation chapter in the agriculture cluster. Meetings lasted until September 10 in a hybrid format.