«The public and private defense companies identical problem and a major issue of Certification of final products» – This was stressed member of the board League defense enterprises of Ukraine, chairman of  RPA «PRACTIKA» Oleg Vysotsky during a seminar on reforming the military-industrial complex Ukraine is going on in DC «UkrOboronProm».

– Do you agree that today the conditions of work in the market for private and state defense enterprises are equal?

– I think that it is. Of course, state-owned enterprises have a huge advantage: what they have – factories, equipment – they all had it from the very beginning. And we, the private traders, have to create all this from scratch. However, in the end, we enter the free market and work the same way. We have similar problems with them.

– Is it possible to agree with the statement of an adviser to the US embassy on the need to reduce the state’s share in the Ukrainian defense industry?

– You see, there are a number of products, the production of which private traders simply will not master in the coming decades, and the presence of the state there is necessary.

– Which for example?

– For example, tanks. Or planes.

– That is, the privatization of such industries does not make sense?

– I think that we often misunderstand the word “privatization”. In the case of the DIC, for example, privatization should mean not only investment, but also an understanding by the investor and owner of the specifics of the market, its ability to find a market for products.

– In your opinion, now the reform of the defense industry is developing in the right direction?

– At the moment it is not quite clear where it is going. For today in the theses of the seminar a lot of concrete moments were announced, but as a result, nothing concrete has sounded in the speeches.

He also called for a national certification framework for IWT certification according to NATO standards. This, according to Oleg Vysotsky, it is essential to carry out joint efforts in order to make the transition to NATO standards, domestic producers have not lost IWT own Ukrainian market.

Seminar on reforming the military-industrial complex of Ukraine on 14 June in Kiev within the framework of the meeting of the Joint Working Group UKRAINE-NATO military-technical cooperation.