Comprehensive control will be strengthened mainly on access roads to checkpoints where the blockade is in progress.
In Poland , control over Ukrainian carriers has already been strengthened, especially on the access roads to checkpoints where the border blockade takes place.
This was announced during a press conference at the Wierzchowiska checkpoint in Lublin Voivodeship on December 2 by Polish Minister of Infrastructure Alwin Gajadur, Ukrinform reports.
“This control has already been strengthened,” Gayadur said.
Alvin Gayadur noted that at a recent meeting with representatives of the Committee for the Protection of Polish Carriers and Transport Employers, he, along with the heads of other services, declared that “comprehensive control” would be strengthened mainly on the access roads to checkpoints where the blockade is taking place. Instead, the carriers had previously promised not to tighten the border blockade.
The minister said that the check, which will also involve police, border guards and customs officers along with traffic inspection, will take place at traveler service points (MOP) and parking lots.
Gayadur also said that over 11 months of this year, Polish road inspectors checked about 15 thousand trucks belonging to Ukrainian carriers and identified 9.4 thousand violations. Consequently, fines amounting to 1.8 million zlotys (about 17 million UAH) were imposed.
In turn, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland Bartosz Grodetsky expressed hope that already this coming Monday, December 4, at the Ugrinov-Dolgobychev checkpoint, the Ukrainian side will open an additional traffic lane through which empty trucks will return to Poland outside the electronic queue.
Let us remind you that the day before the relevant ministries of Ukraine and Poland agreed on measures to reduce truck queues at automobile checkpoints on the border, which remained blocked for the fourth week in a row due to a strike by Polish carriers.
What preceded
Let us remind you that on November 6, Polish carriers began to block the movement of trucks at the Krakovets-Korcheva, Yagodin-Dorogusk and Rava-Russkaya-Grebnoye checkpoints. Among the main demands is the return of the practice of permits for Ukrainian carriers, abolished by the agreement with the European Union until June 30, 2024. The protesters want the agreement to be torn up and the border crossing permit regime to be resumed on January 1.
On November 26, it became known that there were cases of blocking of humanitarian aid on the border with Poland.
It was also reported that on December 1 at 16:00 another country will join the border blockade – Slovakia . We are talking about blocking the border for trucks in the direction “Vyshne Nemetskoe-Uzhgorod”.
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