Crimeans will be able to transport their things to mainland of Ukraine

The Kyiv District Administrative Court allowed the claim of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union on the recognition Article 1 of the Cabinet of Ministers’ Resolution № 1035 as illegal. According to this law, the personal things transportation from the occupied Crimea was forbidden.

The Kiev court resolution is published on the website of the Single State Register of Judicial Decisions.

The above-mentioned governmental resolution limited the supply of goods from the occupied peninsula to the mainland of Ukraine. You are allowed to take from the peninsula only socially significant goods not more than 50 kg per one person and there are 23 items. According to human rights activists, this document limited the rights of Crimeans. On February 16, the first deputy Prime Minister, minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, Stepan Kubiv made a protocol request to revise and correct resolution № 1035. There are foreseen corrections about the transportation from Crimea personal belongings, household appliances, medicines, cash and pets.

According to the law, the court resolution is gaining its legal force in 10 days.

The Helsinki Human Rights Union lawyer Maxim Timochko considers that the result of the case consideration will more affect the government, so it might develop a qualitatively different normative document satisfying Crimeans.

«It is unlikely that the government will be able to delay it now. As far as I know, new projects are discussed in the Ministry of Temporary Occupied Territories and IDP’s», he told the media publication «Krym.Realities».