Federation of employers of Ukraine and the GIZ projects join forces to support BAT implementation in Ukraine

On 2nd July 2025, the Fed­er­a­tion of employ­ers of Ukraine (FEU) and the GIZ project “Best Avail­able Tech­niques (BAT) for Ukraine” signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Coop­er­a­tion. The part­ner­ship aims to sup­port Ukrain­ian indus­tri­al enter­pris­es in adopt­ing BAT and pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able, respon­si­ble busi­ness prac­tices. The mem­o­ran­dum out­lines coop­er­a­tion in joint research, project devel­op­ment, and advanc­ing envi­ron­men­tal mod­ern­iza­tion in line with EU inte­gra­tion goals. The par­ties have already launched research on the time­lines and finan­cial needs of Ukrain­ian indus­tries for BAT imple­men­ta­tion, con­duct­ed joint­ly by the “Best Avail­able Tech­niques for Ukraine” and “Sup­port­ing Ukraine in the imple­men­ta­tion of the Paris Agree­ment and adap­ta­tion to the impact of cli­mate change in the Black Sea region” (PAABS) projects. The doc­u­ment was signed by FEU Gen­er­al Direc­tor Rus­lan Illi­chov, GIZ Project Direc­tor Gabriel Sauer, and GIZ Project Man­ag­er Andrii Hunko. This part­ner­ship is one more impor­tant step towards eco­log­i­cal mod­ern­iza­tion and sup­port for Ukrain­ian busi­ness on its way to Euro­pean inte­gra­tion.

The project “Best Avail­able Tech­niques (BAT) for Ukraine” imple­ment­ed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty (BMUKN).

PAABS Con­sor­tium is fund­ed by the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for Eco­nom­ic Affairs and Ener­gy under the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI), the project is sup­port­ed and coor­di­nat­ed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH. PAABS stands for “Sup­port­ing Ukraine in the imple­men­ta­tion of the Paris Agree­ment and adap­ta­tion to the impact of cli­mate change in the Black Sea region”.