The Board of the Accounting Chamber, having applied the system approach to monitoring of issues associated with the Chernobyl NPP decommissioning and Shelter Object transformation into an ecologically safe system, examined the report on results of audit on fulfilling recommendations of the international coordinated Chernobyl Shelter Fund audit and drew the following conclusions.

During 2011-2012 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Governments of CSF contributor-countries (donors), EBRD, the Fund Donor Assembly, having ensured fulfillment of Shelter Implementation Plan and maintenance of the existing sarcophagus in operating condition, continued implementation of recommendations of the international coordinated audit in scopes that gave an impulse to progress in solving the key problems.

The principal consent of participants of the Shelter Object transformation into an ecologically safe system on additional contribution into the fund (€ 740 million) that will facilitate the budgeting of the New Safe Confinement construction, assembly of which commenced last year, was achieved in 2011. At the same time the Chernobyl Shelter Fund's financial resource is not sufficient for the full-scale fulfillment of the Object implementation plan.

It was revealed that some regulatory legal acts of the Ukrainian legislation that regulate this field need improvements. First of all this is related to the National Program of Chernobyl NPP Decommissioning and Shelter Object Transformation into an Ecologically Safe System, in which one should specify completion dates of construction of the New Safe Confinement and infrastructure facilities, other works at the Chernobyl NPP industrial site, as well as sources and approximate scopes of financing.

The Board of the Accounting Chamber stated that in spite of definite progress in constructing the Chernobyl NPP infrastructure facilities, there is a risk of non-fulfillment of individual contracts within the established deadlines.

Press-Service of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine