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Ukrainian Antimonopoly Committee urges Health Ministry to bring norms and standards of foodstuffs’ railway transportation into line with competition legislation
02.12.2004 10:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Antimonopoly Committee demands from Health Ministry to bring actual sanitary norms and standards of foodstuffs’ railway transportation into conformity with ruling competition laws, reported Antimonopoly Committee’s press-service.
«Bodies of power are obligatory to accord with us drafts of all norm-setting acts which are possible to influence domestic competition. It’s one of control mechanisms, as stipulated by ruling legislation. In what concerns this case, however, Health Ministry didn’t do it. That’s why now Health Ministry is to have our instructions fulfilled within 30 days: to accept changes we have proposed as well as to coordinate with us all new norms and standards of foodstuffs’ railway transportation; otherwise we are to initiate arbitral proceedings,» reported press-service, citing Oleksiy Kostusiev, Antimonopoly Committee’s Chief.
Though actual Ukrainian sanitary norms and standards oblige cargo owners to carry out railway cars’ disinfection at their own cost, detailed analysis of ruling transportation laws convincingly proves these requirements’ being in controversy to Law «About Assuring Population’s Sanitary and Epidemiological Security» as well as to Ukrainian Railway’s Statute, stipulating the railway cars’ disinfection to be carried out not by cargo owners, yet by railway cars’ owners.
As to State Statistic Committee, within Jan-Oct 2004 Ukrainian railway has transported 6.8 million tons (up 48.9% against 2003 similar period) grain as well as products of grain processing, while this period’s total transportation volume amounted to 383.000 million tons (up 4.7% against 2003 similar period).
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