Poland announced an agreement with carriers not to block new checkpoints

The Minister of Infrastructure of Poland, Alvin Gayadhur, met with carriers who are blocking four checkpoints on the border with Ukraine. This was announced by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland on Wednesday, November 29.

After Gayadhur’s meeting with the representative of Poland’s transport industry, Waldemar Yasztur, it became known that the carriers will not extend the protests to other checkpoints – in Nižankovychy and Zosin. However, they “do not intend” to stop the protest altogether.

“We refused to extend [the protest] to the next checkpoints, although we were already preparing. We are also ready to consider the possibility of softening the form of our protest if the Polish authorities strengthen effective control over trucks entering Poland,” Yasztur emphasized.

Gayadhur instead said that the Polish authorities would “take urgent measures” to tighten control over trucks entering the country’s territory, Polskieradio24.pl reported.

On December 4, a meeting of the EU Transport Council will be held in Brussels. The Polish side requested that one of the issues on the agenda be the discussion of the consequences of the agreement between Ukraine and the EU, which entered into force on July 1, 2022.

Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the country wants to propose the renewal of permits for cargo transportation from Ukraine at the level of the European Union.

Polish protesters, who have been protesting on the border with Ukraine since November 6, in particular, demand the return of the permit system for Ukrainian carriers. Against the background of a full-scale war, the European Union canceled the entry permits of Ukrainian carriers into the EU until at least June 30, 2024, in order to liberalize cargo transportation. Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Serhiy Derkach said that the issue of “transport visa-free” is a fundamental issue for Ukraine.

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