Agenda: Implementing technological development initiatives in industry and in the transport sector, supporting startups and exports, as well as innovation in healthcare, industrial construction, the environment and agro-science.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Excerpts from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
We are continuing our series of meetings on implementing socio-economic development initiatives over the next nine years, to 2030.
This week, we have discussed the situation in construction, science, education, digital transformation and sport at a meeting that involved deputy prime ministers, ministries and agencies. The results of our discussion will form the foundation for making further headway in these areas, with due consideration for the President’s instructions and the tasks he set for achieving national development goals. This is our priority. This range of measures is an important part of our efforts to boost people’s quality of life in every Russian region.
Today we will discuss the initiatives being monitored by my deputies, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov and Deputy Prime Minister Viktoria Abramchenko.
We will begin with technological development measures and introducing new solutions in industry and in the transport sector. The list of initiatives, overseen by Mr Belousov, also includes a range of measures to create a more convenient business environment for beginner entrepreneurs launching startups and for established companies to successfully enter foreign markets.
Advances in these areas bring the national economy closer to ensuring sustainable long-term growth, which directly improves our people’s well-being, which in turn is the key goal that the President set before us.
Fresh ideas and innovative outside-the-box solutions are important if we want to obtain significant results and fulfill our goals. Accordingly, support for technology start-up companies at every phase of their development that include launching innovative production and bringing on major investors, was identified as a key initiative.
Notably, technology entrepreneurs also need help in making forays into international markets with their competitive products. There are public services that are already available digitally.
At the same time, projects with the so-called pulling effect for technologies that help develop related industries and create new jobs provide the most beneficial results for the economy, for example, in the production of electric vehicles and traction batteries. Our initiatives include the creation of an entire product line of such vehicles powered by alternative energy sources with improved energy efficiency and environmental friendliness.
High-tech solutions help fulfill a number of other goals, including those set by the President that seek to ensure connectivity of the Russian regions and to promote transit traffic. The Government is managing a major year-round Northern Sea Transport Corridor project. Much effort is being invested in developing unmanned cargo transport not only on roads, but by water and air as well. Corresponding technologies and solutions are being created, and carriers and truck manufacturers have already been identified.
Of course, innovations in public health are extremely helpful. They make it possible to set up remote monitoring of a patient’s condition, which the doctors can use for medical decisions. Personal medical devices will need to be developed and implemented, which is particularly important amid coronavirus restrictions and quarantine measures.
We discussed construction projects at our most recent meeting. We will look into another project today, which is designed to cut construction costs when building industrial sites. To do so, we will need to significantly amend the regulations.
Mr Belousov, please update us in detail on each of these nine strategic areas, primarily, what has been accomplished over the past several months and upcoming plans.
Andrei Belousov: Thank you very much.
Mr Mishustin, colleagues, good afternoon.
As we all know, we are talking about a package of nine initiatives. Developed under the Prime Minister’s instructions, they were presented to the President, and the Government approved them in October by issuing a directive to this effect.
These nine initiatives can be notionally divided into three groups.
The first group are initiatives aimed at improving the business climate and creating a more business-friendly environment, primarily in manufacturing, industrial construction, exports, and technological development.
This includes the initiative titled “Reengineering industrial construction regulations,” creating a one-stop-shop digital ecosystem for exporters, as well as the initiative known as “Take-off – From Startup to IPO” to devise a framework for supporting start-ups that can cater to Russia’s technological needs.
The second group consists of so-called technology initiatives and technological development “beacon projects.” They deal with building new markets based on breakthrough technology such as using drones and unmanned vehicles in the air, on the ground and at sea, creating a market for electric vehicles and manufacturing EVs in Russia, and developing a remote health monitoring system for patients with high blood pressure and diabetes using wearables.
We believe that these are essential initiatives for the country. In the future, they could change the lives of millions of people. I am certain that these technology-related “beacon projects” will have the same place in the history of Russia’s technology development as the first railway that linked St Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo in 1837, giving birth to the entire railway sector, or as Baird’s steamboat Elizaveta, Russia’s first steamer launched in 1815, or the first Yakovlev-Freze automobile – launched in the late 19th century, which started car manufacturing in Russia.
The third group represents one major, comprehensive transport project to develop the Northern Sea Route as a year-round corridor. This will complete the system of three East-West corridors covering our entire national territory and sewing it together into a single whole, to use the President’s words. This includes the railway corridor with both the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian Railway, a motorway corridor from the border with Finland to major cities in the Urals and on to Siberia, including Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and all the way to Tyumen, and the sea corridor, mentioned above, linking northwestern ports with Russia’s Far East.
Now I would like to review in brief the results of each of these initiatives.
As regards reengineering industrial construction regulations, last year we analysed the customer processes, the algorithms for 15 standard facilities of industrial construction, and we approved a roadmap for regulatory changes. This roadmap is already being used, which allowed us, according to available estimates, to reduce the time for the construction of industrial facilities by two months on average.
In particular, we expedited the adoption of amendments to the building codes for cases where special technical conditions are agreed upon more than once, and launched a one-stop-shop service for holding urban-planning state environmental impact reviews, to name a few.
This year we will have to adopt at least ten major regulatory amendments to related legislation to further reduce the time of industrial construction by four months and, thus, decrease costs.
Now regarding the second initiative, the one-stop-shop digital ecosystem for exporters. The first services for exporters, based on digital interdepartmental cooperation, have already been created and are operational. This primarily applies to the digitisation of major subsidies – for transport and exhibitions, and free sale permits.
The status and functions of the digital platform have been fixed in the regulations. Exporters have received access to 25 services, including fully automated instant services that are already used by over 3,000 large exporters.
I can say that today the one-stop-shop site receives over 60 types of data from 18 departments in Russia. To my knowledge, this is one of the most capable sites of its kind, one of the leading sources for state information systems in general.
This year, we plan to expand the number of services to over 30, and create loan product platforms for exporters. Also in 2022 and 2023, we will launch a system of settlements for exporters in cooperation with the Central Bank. We must also launch a system, and this is important, for the continuous improvement of rendered services based on feedback. The number of exporters using the system should almost double to 6,000.
As for the “Take-off – From Startup to IPO” initiative, we already have a pre-acceleration system based on the annual project and educational intensive course “Archipelago.” This is a system that moves forward newly established startups and teams, over 6,000 teams last year.
At the end of last year, the Fund of Funds was launched with private and public funding. The current contributions are 8 billion roubles each, but this year, they should reach 10 billion roubles each from private businesses and the state.
Agreements have been concluded between all leading innovative development institutions on the so-called seamless integration of support measures. If a start-up that has received support from one of the development institutions has shown substantial progress, it will be entitled to support from other development institutions at subsequent stages of its growth using a simplified procedure, and Vnesheconombank plays a key role here (I would like to thank Igor Shuvalov for this).
It is also very important that a prototype information system has been developed for the seamless integration of measures to support innovative companies. This year, we plan to deploy this system; large corporations, public and private companies will be able to connect to it to facilitate investments in startups at later stages of their development.
As early as this year, we plan to deploy a system to support tech companies so they could grow to meet large companies’ needs through preferential loans and dedicated grants.
The next area of focus is “Unmanned Logistics Corridors.” Last year, the M-11 Moscow - St Petersburg federal motorway was named a pilot road for introducing driverless trucks. The participants of the project have been selected; its economic, organisational and financial model has been developed. The operator is the Avtodor state corporation. Carriers have been selected, and a project consortium created involving Globaltruck, Business Lines (Dellin.ru), X5, Ozon and Russian Post, which will be the first users of the unmanned road.
The development of unmanned traffic infrastructure on M-11 should begin this year. An experimental legal regime should be established (this work is already underway and needs to be completed) and technical solutions need to be tried out on the test section of the digital infrastructure now deployed on the Central Ring Road.
By the end of the year, it is essential that at least four cargo vehicle prototypes with a high level of automation need to be developed. A high level of automation means that there will be a person in the cab, but they will not be driving. Later, next year, they should begin commercial operation.
Next is the fifth initiative, unmanned cargo delivery by air. The concept here is to integrate unmanned aerial systems into the common Russian air space. One important aspect is, since heavyweight unmanned aircraft will be flying in the common air space, we need to ensure flight safety to the utmost.
The project’s commercial partner is Russian Post. Agreements were signed between Russian Post and the four pilot regions involved in testing routes, which are the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, Chukotka, Kamchatka and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. An experimental destination network consisting of 48 routes was developed in these pilot regions.
This year, our goal is to design and build landing grounds and provide necessary equipment as well as launch trial operations in two of the four regions (the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area and Chukotka) and launch commercial operation of at least 12 routes and deliver the first 77 tonnes or more of cargo using the unmanned aerial systems in commercial mode.
The sixth initiative is autonomous maritime navigation. Last year, we determined the pilot route for autonomous vessels, which is between Ust-Luga and Baltiysk. Technical requirements for navigation equipment (autonomous navigation and electronic navigation) were set. The technical partner was selected, which is Sitronics. The project operator is Rosmorport. Trial operation of a vessel in autonomous mode started in the Kerch Strait. An autonomous vessel was launched for the first time. The vessel had been developed under the National Technology Initiative and is now used to calibrate technical and technological parameters of the project.
This year, our goal is to build a wireless broadband data network and supply equipment for two designated autonomous ferries on the route. We also need to supply equipment to the autonomous vessel navigation centre, develop training programmes for crews and handle several other tasks.
The seventh initiative is developing and launching electric cars and after 2024, hydrogen vehicles. Here, we selected eight pilot territories and federal motorways to build charging infrastructure. These territories include the Moscow Region, the Krasnodar Territory, the Leningrad Region, the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Sakhalin, Tatarstan, as well as Crimea, Sevastopol and the M-4 Don motorway. Pilot charging stations will be built on these territories. We developed a map of charging stations, so-called rapid chargers for each region. We are also relying on subsidised car loans and car leasing to promote electric car use.
This year, 528 fast charging stations with a capacity of at least 150 kWh will be put into operation in the above pilot areas. At least 2,500 cars will be included in the programme to boost the demand. Also, importantly, Rosatom will organise our country’s first SKD assembly of traction batteries in the Kaliningrad Region.
The eighth initiative is about creating personal health assistants. We have drafted a list of diseases for the pilot project. In fact, as I said, there are two diseases: hypertension and diabetes. Six regions have made it to a list of constituent entities that will host pilot projects. The Federal Medical and Biological Agency will be included in developing the initiative as well.
The list of insurance companies has been drawn up and includes three insurance companies: Sogaz, Ak Bars (Tatarstan) and the Military Insurance Company. Two national medical research centres specialising in cardiology and endocrinology will participate in this initiative as well.
This year, we will launch pilot projects in the six selected regions with a technology partner and insurance companies, develop a working prototype of a digital platform and integrate this prototype with medical information systems operated by the two above national medical research centres. Also, for the first time, we will connect at least 4,000 patients with diabetes and hypertension to this system and remotely monitor their condition with the corresponding devices.
Finally, the ninth initiative is to create a year-round Northern Sea Route, which is a long-term initiative with a horizon to 2030. Notably, almost 35 million tonnes of cargo were transported along the Northern Sea Route last year, which is more than the planned 31 million tonnes. The nuclear icebreaker Sibir was put into operation. The nuclear icebreaker Arktika’s capacity was increased to 60 MW, and agreements to launch the construction of four floating nuclear power units for the Baimsky Mining and Processing Plant were signed.
The bulk of the work to organise, above all, navigation and proper functioning of the Northern Sea Route will need to be completed this year. As we learned from the November 2021 navigation crisis, we need to create a single navigation management body on the Northern Sea Route this year. This is a critically important goal, without achieving which we will be unable to move forward.
In addition, the Ural nuclear icebreaker must become operational this year. We also need to start building the first LNG-powered icebreaker, complete the construction of the Yenisei port for coal transportation and, importantly, develop a prototype of a single platform for Northern Sea Route digital services, which, among other things, will combine communication and navigation services.
Mr Mishustin, colleagues, in brief, this is all I have to say about the outcomes of our work and our plans.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you.
It is very good that you have detailed, step-by-step schedules for implementing these projects, with monitoring conducted every two months. This will help us do the job on time.
We must always have feedback from our people and listen to their opinions because this approach allows us to make the best decisions. The President often talks about this.
It is important to organise this work systematically. It shouldn’t depend on the human factor. I would like to ask you to expedite the transfer of all communications and oversight functions to digital platforms. This is what we are doing all the time.
Colleagues, now let’s move on to the issues supervised by Ms Abramchenko. This is primarily the large environment portfolio. It contains many sensitive issues that are worrying people, including rational use of natural resources, and careful attitude to Russia’s natural riches, such as forests, minerals and many other resources. They are substantial but we must be more proactive and responsible in our efforts to preserve them, even more so since Russia has assumed certain international commitments, including in the fight against climate change.
Our initiatives include measures for the low-carbon transformation of a number of economic sectors. The President has said more than once that we need to adopt modern legislation that will allow us to control carbon emissions. With this aim in view, we will create a national system of precision monitoring of greenhouse emissions. It will allow us to account for all emissions and their absorption.
Another related area here is geological prospecting. It is not limited to mineral or raw material resources. It is no less important to continue to search for and assess water resources to improve water supply in many regions and support geophysical studies of the shelf, the world ocean and the Antarctic.
These undertakings are an important part of environmental safety. Its requirements must be mandatory for oversight bodies, businesses and every Russian citizen. We were guided by this principle when we endorsed the “general cleanup” initiative. Last year, we raised and disposed of 17 vessels as part of this initiative. We hope this is just the first step in cleaning up coastal territories and basins.
A lot is also being done to reduce the amount of waste, including hazardous forms. We will have to create conditions to reuse as many secondary resources as possible, as well as for new production facilities that will use them, which will create a circular economy with all existing resources in circulation - almost waste-free production.
Of course, when we are talking about using natural resources smartly and reducing the negative impact on the environment, we understand how much work remains to be done in the agriculture sector.
Food production is becoming more high-tech, and the Government will continue providing state support for agricultural science centres in an entire range of areas.
Last year 35 breeding centres were established to encourage Russian seed production as well as to help develop cattle breeding. Dozens of new scientific labs emerged, and the tool base was updated. Funds to purchase scientific lab equipment will also be allocated this year.
All these measures are necessary to improve the technological level of Russian agriculture, which the President said many times was necessary.
Ms Abramchenko, one of the initiatives you oversee is related to agricultural science. Please tell us about the results you have achieved and how the implementation of environmental initiatives is going.
Viktoria Abramchenko: Mr Mishustin, colleagues,
As you rightly noted, Mr Mishustin, food production in Russia is getting more high-tech. The technological upgrade of the Russian agricultural sector is a key task we have set to achieve by 2030.
This is why the Technological Breakthrough component includes the initiative “Agricultural science: A step towards further development of the agricultural sector.” In this initiative, we focus on developing Russian breeding and genetics, including based on genome and post-genome technologies.
The three-year budget for this initiative is 6.2 billion roubles, including more than 2 billion roubles for 2022.
By 2024, we will create, register and introduce Russian varieties and hybrids of crops with, importantly, characteristics that are as good as their foreign analogues, as part of the task to develop the Russian school of breeding and genetics. We are developing and introducing technologies aimed at increasing the productivity of dairy cattle, and we are training breeders and geneticists.
In particular, our task is to provide farmers with seeds of corn, cereals and leguminous crops per the Food Security Doctrine in order not to depend on imports.
We must ensure that Russian cross-breed meat chickens make up nine percent of the poultry market.
New research infrastructure will be created by 2024. In total, we will establish five agrobiotechnoparks, the first of which will be built this year.
To increase crop yields and the productivity of farm animals, we are creating Russia’s first digital bank of genetic passports. To do this, in 2021 we ensured the adoption of one of the most important laws: the Federal Law on Seed Production, the work on which took over 10 years.
In addition, systematic work was carried out in 2021 to mobilise the potential of the agriculture R&D sector in science, innovation and production. In particular, 50 agricultural research centres and 30 interdisciplinary research centres were established. Test farms were attached to research centres as experimental sites. Also, 114 new scientific laboratories studying breeding, seed production and molecular genetics were created, which have already attracted more than 1,100 new researchers.
Last year, 35 selection and seed production and selection and breeding centres were created, the amount of state support for which until 2024 will amount to 3.7 billion roubles as part of the Science and Universities national project. In 2021, as part of updating equipment at agricultural research centres, 1 billion roubles worth of scientific laboratory equipment was purchased. This year, 1 billion roubles will be allocated for the same purposes.
Another project connected with the development of domestic technologies has to do with geological exploration. This is the Geology: Resurrection of a Legend initiative. The goal of the initiative is to expand the country's mineral resource base and the long-term development of our economy.
Our country has almost all types of minerals. Moreover, Russia is among the world leaders in terms of reserves of hydrocarbon raw materials, coal, iron ores, nickel, copper, zinc, tungsten, diamonds, precious metals and the most important non-metallic raw materials. A significant part of the federal budget revenue comes from the extraction and export of raw materials. This is the foundation of the Russian economy. And the implementation of this initiative will allow us not to lose our leading positions.
The budget includes funds in the amount of 31.6 billion roubles to implement this initiative for three years (including more than 10 billion roubles for 2022).
The first two are associated with geological exploration. They are necessary to identify new mineral deposits and groundwater reserves in water-deficient regions of our country.
Our goal is to enter seven new promising hydrocarbons fields and 15 solid mineral deposits into the books in 2024. To this end, our plans include sending exploration crews for field reconnaissance, primarily in Siberia and the Far East, as early as this year.
The most important task in this initiative is to solve the problem of water shortages in some regions of our country and to compile a single register of potable water.
I want to point out that clean drinking water has become a highly valuable resource in the world and its shortage may result in a global water crisis in the near future. Russia is rich in water resources, which is one of our advantages and our goal is to preserve them.
Since the surface waters are unprotected against pollutants and are exposed to climate change, the role of subsurface drinking water has been growing considerably.
Our plans are to draw up a single register of drinking water sources, both surface and subsurface, by 2024.
To solve the problem of water shortages in 11 regions of our country we are contemplating doubling subsurface water resources in 2024 and preparing 12 areas for licensing. In all 11 regions we will start drilling exploratory water wells already in 2022.
The third area is modernising the equipment of Rosgeo and the sectoral institutes of the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources. We need to restore government competencies in geological prospecting, accelerate field operations and increase the accuracy of laboratory research. For this purpose, we will buy at least 600 units of geological prospecting and laboratory equipment by the end of 2024. We have already prepared a list.
The fourth area will ensure compliance with our international obligations, above all in the world ocean. We must also explore the Spitsbergen Archipelago and the Antarctic in order to keep our leading positions.
The two following initiatives are within the Ecology block and deal with the national objective “Comfortable and Safe Environment.” I mean such initiatives as the “Country Cleanup” and the “Circular Economy.”
“Country Cleanup” is a major project focusing on removing debris on land and at sea. As directed by the President, the Government has set aside 20 billion roubles for a three-year period, including over 4 billion roubles for this year. The time has come to remove the debris that has piled up over decades, including sunken ship cemeteries in sea bays, landfills in our cities, hazardous drilling wells and abandoned industrial enterprises, which continue to poison the environment and to harm our people’s health.
Importantly, the cleanup must be followed up by efforts to prevent further littering. To this end, last year we codified fundamental environmental changes. Important environmental laws have been adopted. It is now illegal to sink ships and abandon manufacturing sites. Property owners will bear full costs for removing piled-up damage on land and at sea.
In addition, all budget revenues that come from environmental fees and fines will be reserved for environmental projects, primarily the ones aimed at implementing this initiative.
The cleanup initiative at sea went live in 2021 ahead of schedule, as Mr Mishustin mentioned earlier. In 2021, 17 sunken ships were salvaged in the waters of the Far Eastern Federal District and disposed of.
This year, we plan to salvage and scrap 68 sunken ships in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, the Magadan Region, the Khabarovsk and Primorye territories. We plan to scrap 213 sunken ships by 2024. They will no longer interfere with shipping, fishing or damage the environment.
Even more work will be done on land. Last year, we started taking stock of the piled-up debris. So far, we have identified 1,929 such items and will now assess their impact on the environment and human health.
This year we will inspect 192 sites. Eliminating them will improve the quality of life for more than 10 million people. This year, we plan to start drafting design estimates to remove five most hazardous sites. By 2024, we will have assessed the impact of the piled-up debris that was identified as part of this initiative on the environment and human health.
Concurrently, we will start shutting down and plugging abandoned wells. This year, we plan to liquidate 60 wells, and by the end of 2024 we will have plugged over 500 of the most hazardous wells.
The next initiative in the environmental block is relevant for every citizen and almost all economic sectors: “Circular Economy.” Its aim is to create conditions to minimise the generation of waste and involvement of useful fractions from waste in the secondary circulation, halving the disposal of municipal solid waste by 2030.
The problem of waste generation and littering the planet does not only include household waste which accumulates every day and in every home, but first of all industrial waste, eight billion tonnes of which is generated in our country, including in the process of subsoil use.
The useful part of this volume can be introduced into the secondary circulation and thus involved in the economy. For example, according to expert estimations, extracting gold, platinum and silver from household appliances and electronics is 13 times more efficient than from ore.
The budget envisages 10.6 billion roubles for this initiative for a three-year period, including 5.8 billion roubles in 2022. By the end of 2024, for the first time in Russia, eight modern ecological technoparks will be built as part of the initiative. The share of the use of secondary resources in agriculture should reach 25 percent, 20 percent in construction, and 15 percent in industry; and half of the packaging types should be recycled.
In order to do this, last year we started preparing both incentives and restrictive measures similar to those in the leading countries. In particular, we have prepared rules for supporting projects using green bonds and a guide to the best available technologies for waste disposal and treatment. We have developed a basic draft federal law on the use of secondary material resources.
In 2022, we plan to conclude the adoption of all the legislative acts and approve four sectoral programmes on the use of secondary resources in industry, agriculture, and construction, as well as get around to creating ecological technoparks. Now we are choosing venues for such parks together with the regions.
The last initiative is related to creating the necessary tools and conditions for the low-carbon development. In this initiative, we focus on measures to adapt the Russian economy to emerging external challenges on the climate agenda, on creating a system to monitor and account for climate-active gas sources and sinks, as well as on encouraging exporters to invest in climate projects in Russia.
To carry out this initiative, we have allocated 10.9 billion roubles in the budget for three years, including over 4.5 billion roubles for the current year.
Last year we provided for the adoption of several most important regulating documents, including the Strategy for the Development of the Russian Federation with low level of greenhouse gas emissions through to 2050, the basic federal law on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the criteria for sustainable development projects, the so-called green taxonomy, and set out conditions for green financing. Last year we placed green bonds to the amount of 94 billion roubles and prepared a Federal Science and Technology Programme for Climate for approval.
We are working on a system of high-precision monitoring of greenhouse gases to be created by 2024 as part of carrying out the most important innovation projects of national significance as determined by the President. Such a system will make it possible to objectively evaluate the absorption capacity of our ecosystems and forecast climate change, and prevent its unfavourable effects for people and the economy.
Our plans also include attracting 600 billion roubles in investment to climate projects, including green bonds placement to the amount of over 400 billion roubles. By 2024, we will create conditions for involving up to 15 million hectares of forest and up to 25 percent of reserve forests in climate projects on farmlands. All this will enable us to increase the absorption capacity of Russian ecosystems by 10 percent.
Our actions must be confirmed and verified inside the country and recognised in the world. Our plans are to ensure the approval of 78 national standards on climate by 2024 (five such standards were approved in 2021). We will also set up a system of accreditation for Russian verifiers by 2024, which should be internationally recognised. In addition, we are going to synchronise international and national infrastructure so as to implement climate projects under the Paris climate agreement, which will let us ensure international recognition of the Russian carbon units and enable their world circulation.
Mr Mishustin, you set us ambitious goals. All the teams that carried out the relevant initiatives worked very hard. I want to thank all participants in this process and all executive government bodies.
What is important: we had no time to waste here, so in 2021 we focused on drafting the relevant regulations and ensured the adoption of key federal laws (for which I give my special thanks to the State Duma and the Federation Council). We managed to adopt very important environmental laws.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you, Ms Abramchenko.
It is important for these measures to produce tangible results. Of course, it is easier to evaluate the success of agribusiness: we can see it in the annual harvests. Environmental initiatives are more difficult to evaluate. However, the targets have been set and the main thing now is to do all that is planned in due time.