On his last day in office, Polish Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk sent a letter to Deputy Prime Minister for the Restoration of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov with Warsaw’s proposals for resolving the crisis at the border.
These proposals include letting empty Polish trucks from Ukraine to Poland outside the e-queue and asking the European Commission to analyze the consequences of the implementation of the agreement on the liberalization of transport with Ukraine.
According to the letter, one of the reasons for the blockade of the border by Polish carriers is the introduction of an e-queue by the Ukrainian side. This has led to an increase in waiting time at the border for EU vehicles returning empty from Ukraine.
This makes it impossible to fulfill further orders and reduces the competitiveness of companies. In addition, according to the protesters, the new system allows for unequal treatment of carriers from Ukraine and Poland, the Polish ministry emphasizes.
In this context, Minister Adamczyk called for urgent measures to fulfill the requirements of Polish road carriers, for which the Ukrainian side was responsible.
This includes the exclusion of mandatory registration in the e-queue for vehicles returning from Ukraine to the EU without cargo at at least two checkpoints: Ustyluh-Zosin and Nyzhankovychi-Malhowice, the letter says.
The Polish minister also asked European Commissioner for Transport Adina-Ioana Valean to set up a joint committee to analyze the impact of the agreement on liberalization of transport with Ukraine (effective from July 1, 2022) on the EU road transport market.
Minister Adamczyk called on Commissioner Valean and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to support his appeal to the Ukrainian government on the issue of an e-queue for EU drivers. Poland is also preparing a proposal to make the transport liberalization agreement with Ukraine one of the main topics of negotiations at the December 4 meeting of the EU Transport Council in Brussels. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
