“The rules about to be extended do not work toward the goals for which they were introduced in the first place, which was to help the Ukrainian economy with getting goods in and out of the country at war,” said Jan Buczek, president of the Polish Association of International Road Carriers.
The original agreements, signed in June 2022, were mostly aimed at ensuring food security and sustaining trade flows as Russia’s attacks blocked traditional Ukrainian transport routes via the Black Sea.
“We see that some member states on the eastern flank of the union have some issues with the proposals, but there’s a broad majority supporting extensions which take into consideration the worries of these countries,” said an EU diplomat granted anonymity to freely discuss the matter.
As for the Ukraine agreement, its adoption is a longer process that is still ongoing and at this point we do not know what our position will be,” said Marta Gan, a spokesperson for Poland’s permanent representation to the EU.
The implementation of the agreement, however, resulted in discontentment of both our hauliers and the national supervisory authorities, which pointed out the absence of sufficient tools to properly oversee the liberalized transport services.”
The European Transport Workers’ Federation says so-called solidarity lanes played a key role in keeping Ukraine’s supply and trade alive.
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