On the Constitution Day, a large column of cars with foreign numbers led by Mykola Zaporozhets, a car produced in 1991, which Ukrainian activists have registered in Poland, drove along the main streets of Lviv. In such a way Lviv residents demanded that the Ukrainian parliament adopt the laws № 5561 and № 5562 that will allow ordinary Ukrainians to buy imported used cars at affordable prices.
“The cars of foreign production which are affordable to every Ukrainian – this is an opportunity to implement citizens’ right to freedom of movement, affirmed in Article 33 of the Constitution of Ukraine, and to adequate standard of living (Articles 25, 48 of the Constitution of Ukraine), said the chairman of the UKROP party Lviv regional organization, deputy of Lviv City Council Ihor Telishevsky. – That is why on the birthday of the State Basic Law our party members together with civic activists starts an automobile rally across Lviv region.”
On July 1-2, a column of automobilists will visit Gorodok, Rudky, Sambir, Drohobych, Truskavets, Boryslav, Mykolaiv and Novy Rozdil.
“If we have already the opportunity to go without a visa to EU countries, then we should buy foreign cars and register them in Ukraine according to the same procedure and at the same price as in the European Union,” stressed the civic activist Mykhailo Katruk. – An experiment with the registration of the Ukrainian “Zaporozhets” in Poland, which the Poles have kindly called Mykola, has proved: various duties and obstacles on the way are artificial and corrupt in their essence. If in Poland the Ukrainian “Zaporozhets” produced in 1991 was registered without hindrance and for a symbolic price, but with the only requirement – the proper technical condition, the reverse Ukrainian registration, in accordance with current legislation would be practically impossible and too expensive, since Mykola does not meet Euro-5 standards, and especially Euro-6.”
The activist has reminded that the bills regulating customs clearance and registration procedures for foreign cars were registered in Parliament almost five months ago, but their adoption is hampered by automobile lobbyists. The documents were prepared by the MPs from UKROP, together with the activists of the NGO “ZAVTRA” (West Ukrainian Association of Transit Cars Owners) and the community “Free People Have Cars”. It is to be recalled, on May 23 this year in Kyiv under the Verkhovna Rada the UKROP representatives and civic activists held a rally for creation of a civilized market of used cars in Ukraine.
