On 4 June, BUSINESSEUROPE hosted the Confederation of Ukrainian Employers for a joint meeting on deepening EU-Ukrainian economic cooperation. Ukraine has recently acceded to the WTO under very ambitious terms and into bilateral trade and investment negotiations with the EU. The objective of the future trade agreement is to foster much closer economic integration through free trade and regulatory convergence. A joint statement on the main issues in the future bilateral agreement were discussed. These views were also advocated to key Commission officials dealing with enterprise (regulatory convergence), trade and external relations. BUSINESSEUROPE will organise a visit to Kiev in the Autumn to further support economic integration with Ukraine.

Woman professional league and Confederation of employers of Ukraine conducted training: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): a base course is for corporate a sector.

In Ministry of labour and social policy of Ukraine the first meeting of interdepartmental working group took a place to introducef the differentiated sizes of minimum wage for the different categories of workers depend on the type of economic activity.

Representative of Confederation of employers of Ukraine - Olga Lopatkina was included in the interdepartmental working group about introduction of the differentiated sizes of minimum wage for the different categories of workers depend on the type of economic activity

The ministry of justice of Ukraine, on January, 30, 2008, registered Allukrainian Federation of employers of tourist agencies, hotels and sanatorium-and-spa organizations