Polish Deputy Infrastructure Minister Pawel Gangarz and Ukrainian Deputy Restoration Minister Sergei Derkach have agreed to extend the agreements on repealing the e-queue procedure for empty trucks at the Nizhankovichi-Malhowice border crossing.
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Polish Deputy Infrastructure Minister Pawel Gangarz and Ukrainian Deputy Restoration Minister Sergei Derkach, who have visited a number of border checkpoints together, have agreed to extend the agreements on repealing the e-queue procedure for empty trucks at the Nizhankovichi-Malhowice border crossing until March 1, Ukrainian media reported citing the Polish Infrastructure Ministry social media post.
Ukraine will also extend until March 1 a pilot procedure of a separate queue for empty trucks at the Yagodin-Dorohusk crossing, with four lanes dedicated specifically for such vehicles, it said.
Gangarz and Derkach visited the Yagodin-Dorohusk, Krakovets-Korczowa, and Ugryniv-Dolhobyczow crossings, Ukrainian media reported.
When the Ukrainian and Polish deputy ministers were meeting at the border, Polish Infrastructure Minister Dariusz Klimczak met with German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck in Warsaw, the Polish Infrastructure Ministry said.
Klimczak asked Habeck to support the Polish ministry's efforts to amend the EU-Ukrainian agreement on visa-free road transport, it said.
The amendments include provisions ruling out transport operations that are not stipulated by the agreement. The parties also discussed the inefficient functioning of the e-queue system, which was among the reasons behind the recent protests by Polish truckers, the ministry said on its website.
The ministry said it forwarded its draft amendments to the EU-Ukrainian agreement to the European Commission on January 16. ■
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