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“We ended the protest on Thursday at 10:30 a.m., within 7 days the Polish control authorities checked 14,000 tractors. There were trucks carrying grain as well as flour and meal. We will find out the details in about a week, when we receive the report of the National Tax Administration, which administers the border control system,” K. Pieczynskis told Elta.
“There were also interesting cases, but farmers do not know all the details. Despite the huge number of inspected trucks, the traffic was less during the inspection week, and the transporters and drivers themselves said that more than one grain transportation was stopped,” he noted.
K. Pieczynskis assured that the Polish authorities continue to plan unplanned cargo inspections and they will be carried out more often.
“Despite this, the services are not finalizing inspections and have announced that unannounced inspections will now be carried out more frequently. We will certainly continue to monitor grain imported from Ukraine and processed in mills in Russia and Lithuania into Community goods,” said the representative of Polish farmers.
ELTA reminds that Polish farmers started to partially block the road between Kalvarija and the village of Budzisko in the Polish Suwalki County on Friday last week. During the campaign, which lasted almost a week, the quantities of transported Ukrainian grain were checked.
Earlier, Polish farmers blocked the roads to Ukraine, as well as the country’s main highway to Germany. The protest is due to, in the opinion of Polish farmers, unfair competition, because Ukrainian grain is cheaper and lowers production prices throughout Europe.
According to the State Border Guard Service, the protest action of Polish farmers at the Budzisko-Kalvarija border checkpoint ended on Thursday. The Chancellor of the Government Giedrė Balchytytė thanked all Lithuanian institutions that successfully prepared and managed the situation.
