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The EIB to Continue a Dialogue with the Fund

 

On 12 March Chairman of the Board of the State Fund for Support of Youth Housing Construction Serhii Komnatnyi held a meeting with representatives of the European Investment Bank (EIB) comprising Violaine Silvestro, Senior Loan Officer, Filip Vandeputte, Senior Energy Efficiency Engineer, Mathieu Hallot, Energy Efficiency Engineer. Members of the Fund’s Board Ivan Parukh, Elvira Levchenko and Serhii Koshelenko, as well as Advisor to Chairman of the Board Olena Shevtsova participated in the meeting.

14Having informed about the main directions of the Fund’s activities, the Chairman of the Board dwelled upon loan programmes, including to the associations of owners of multi-apartment residential buildings (OSBBs), for carrying out energy efficiency and energy saving measures.

At present, Programme of partial loans repayment for implementation of energy efficiency measures in the housing stock for 2016-2020 is implemented in Mykolaiiv region (Resolution of Mykolaiiv Regional Council dated March 11, 2016). Regional office of the State Fund for Support of Youth Housing Construction administers it; programme’s participants are OSBBs and housing construction cooperatives (HCC).

s2The Chairman of the Board presented the Fund’s proposal regarding participation of the institution in the Project of the European Investment Bank “Improving energy efficiency in Eastern Partnership countries” to the EIB delegation. It goes about the use of loan on favorable terms, the funds of which would be directed at:

      -Granting loans to individuals for construction of energy efficient residential buildings;

    -Granting loans to OSBBs for energy efficiency and energy saving measures;

     -Granting loans to the owners of apartments for implementing measures to increase energy efficiency and energy saving.

As a result of the meeting the EIB delegation expressed readiness to continue a dialogue with the State Fund for Support of Youth Housing Construction re cooperation and possibility of the institution’s participation in the Bank’s projects.