Ukraine allowed to use humanitarian transport for passenger transportation
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed Law No. 12177-1, which allows municipal enterprises to use public transport received as humanitarian aid for passenger transportation, the Verkhovna Rada website reported.
The document provides that under martial law and within 12 months after its termination or cancellation, municipal enterprises – road carriers and urban electric transport carriers – may receive buses, electric buses, tram cars, trolleybuses and subway cars as humanitarian aid and use them to transport passengers and luggage.
The law also establishes that the use of such humanitarian transport for transportation is not considered a commercial activity, and its use does not entail criminal or administrative liability.
At the same time, the document regulates the transfer of humanitarian transport to other communities or enterprises.
In addition, the law establishes requirements for the technical condition of buses – they must meet an environmental standard not lower than Euro-3.
Previously, Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction and Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Kuleba reported that over two years of full-scale war, almost 90 communities received more than 800 buses, dozens of trams and trolleybuses, a total of more than 1,000 units of transport.
- On April 30, the Verkhovna Rada approved draft law No. 12177-1 in the second reading and as a whole.
