Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, declared that the opposition supports abolition of compulsory motor vehicle inspection. M.Tomenko commented on the President´s bill on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine regarding prevention of excessive state regulation in the sector of motor transportation.
M.Tomenko reminded of the ongoing discussion concerning abolition of compulsory inspection for the motor cars that are not used for commercial purposes. He also reminded that the opposition had raised this topic in The Verkhovna Rada, but supporters of the acting authorities failed to endorse it. However, pressurized by the public and the opposition, the President of Ukraine brought forward such a bill on April 15. The bill was put on the agenda on April 19.
The Deputy Chairman believes that although the initiative of the public and the opposition has been turned into the President´s idea, the opposition will uphold this bill, as it eradicates shady and corruptive schemes used by the employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate during the vehicle inspection. He informed that according to the experts, nearly 90% of the owners of vehicles receive the inspection sticker without inspection, i.e. using the corruptive schemes, while the turnover of such street charges totals a billion hryvnias annually.
M.Tomenko expects this bill to be adopted in the first reading next plenary week.