26 December
2024
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Strategy for the development of border infrastructure until 2030 developed by the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development. It is about road and railway checkpoints with EU member states and Moldova.
In addition to the Strategy, the Government approved an operational plan of measures for the implementation of the Strategy.
The main goals of the Strategy are: increasing the capacity of the border infrastructure; launch of joint customs and border control with neighboring countries; digitalization of the border crossing to reduce waiting time in the queue; creation of a network of waiting areas.
To achieve the defined goals, the Strategy includes defined tasks and results that must be achieved. In particular, it is about the reconstruction of 29 checkpoints and the construction of 17 new checkpoints.
In addition, the Strategy provides for the implementation of works on the reconstruction of railway tracks, multimodal terminals, electrification of tracks.
The Strategy also focuses on signing agreements on joint control with neighboring countries, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, and introducing the appropriate type of control at checkpoints. The approved document, in particular, provides for the introduction of mechanisms for forecasting peaks in freight and passenger flows for prompt response and redirection of vehicles to less busy checkpoints.
Indicators for monitoring the achievement of the Strategy's goals include: the duration of each procedure and the total duration of all procedures; waiting time in the queue; the number of checkpoints and their design and physical capabilities; increase in bandwidth; availability of service area and its capacity; the number of checkpoints with joint or coordinated control.
The operational plan for the Strategy includes detailed measures for the development of checkpoints and access roads, with the deadlines for the completion of tasks and the amounts and sources of the necessary funding.