Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus insists on restricting the import of old cars below environmental class Euro-3. This was stated by the head of regulatory impacts on air and water resources Sergei Zavialov.
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus insists on restricting the import of old cars below environmental class Euro-3. This was stated by the head of regulatory impacts on air and water resources Sergei Zavialov.
Currently, 60% of imported cars in Belarus — more than seven years and below environmental class Euro-3 «. Total amount of eco-classes is six. In terms of emissions of air pollutants the cleanest ones are new «Euro-5» class cars. «Euro-6 «is still at the development stage, «Komsomolskaya pravda v Belorussii» reports.
«In the framework of the Customs Union, the question of the date for launching the unified import tariffs on automobiles by physical persons is not yet resolved. But in the discussion we, as environmentalists, will be insisting on the restriction of low environmental classes cars being imported into Belarus for high customs duties, » Sergei Zavialov said.
«Customs duties for cars older than 14 years — two euros per cubic centimeter of engine capacity. And such cars virtually have no import in Belarus. The Ministry of Natural Resources would like to see the same high duties on cars older than ten, and best of all — more than seven years, so that cars with eco-class below the «Euro-3» were not advisable to bring to Belarus «, a specialist from the Ministry of Nature added.
«I understand people desire to have cheap cars. But they must also think about what they and their children breathe. If we do not take measures, we’ll have to behave as in Beijing in the future, where on certain days cars with numbers ending with an even or uneven number do not drive. Why do we need to bring the situation to such problems? «, Sergei Zavialov remarked.
