The Ukrainian government has approved a resolution prepared by the Ministry of Economy that moves ePermit from an experimental project to a permanent state digital platform. The decision creates a legal basis for further development of a unified system for permit and licensing services.
The platform is intended to cover the full cycle: an entrepreneur submits an application through the Diia portal, the relevant authority makes a decision, an electronic document is created, and a digital permit or licensing file is maintained. For business, this is a shift from fragmented administrative procedures to a more predictable online route.
What the pilot already showed
During the experimental phase, more than twenty two thousand declarations were submitted through the system and more than three thousand license applications were processed. According to the Ministry of Economy, business saved more than twenty five million hryvnias only from digitizing the service for registering declarations of compliance of material and technical base with labor safety requirements.
Deputy Minister Oleksandr Tsybort said that the more services are moved online, the faster companies enter the market and the less room remains for corruption. That is the central economic logic of the platform: digitalization is not only a convenience, but a deregulation instrument.
Why it matters for investors
For investors, permit procedures are part of country risk. If approvals are slow, unclear or dependent on informal contact, project launch costs rise. A permanent ePermit platform can reduce administrative friction, make timelines more transparent and simplify scaling for companies that need multiple licenses or declarations.
The challenge will be implementation. The platform must add more services, keep legal force for electronic documents and maintain trust in data exchange between government agencies. If this works, ePermit can become one of the practical tools that make Ukraine’s business environment easier to enter and easier to monitor.
