The Committee on Transport and Communication recommends that the Verkhovna Rada should adopt as basis and in entirety the bill regarding Ukraine's accession to the Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the international carriage of goods

Information Department
28 September 2012, 11:52

The bill (reg.No.0262) submitted by the President of Ukraine, stipulates Ukraine's accession to the Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the international carriage of goods of July 5, 1978 in Geneva. It aims at creation preconditions for Ukraine?s integration in the Trans-European Transport Network through implementation of measures regarding accession of the state to international conventions and agreements in the sphere of international automobile cargo transportation. The Protocol is the supplementation to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods and amends article 23 of the Convention. The unit of account is the unit of special drawing rights (SDR), the universal unit of the International Monetary Fund.

 

The Committee members upheld the bill the adoption of which, according to them, will create conditions to reduce time of delivery of freight, increase the level of transport service, contribute to the development of foreign trade cooperation of Ukraine, etc.