Auto manufacturers union and government join to seek ban on old car imports.
During a conference of the board of the Motorization Employers' Union
(Zwiazek Pracodawcow Motoryzacji), auto manufacturers in Poland demanded
an import ban on cars more than seven years old and the classification
of deregistered autos as junk. "We've been talking about ecology and
safety for many years. It is high time we changed the law, so that no
junk cars will be present on Polish roads," said Janusz Wozniak, the
vice president of Daewoo-FSO and the Union's head. According to the data
from Samar, a company monitoring the auto market, during the last
several years more than 90,000 used cars were imported to Poland yearly;
in the first half of 2000 alone more than 97,000 were imported. In the
same period, the number of new cars sold dropped to 225,000. The
government is also concerned with the sales decrease and wants to limit
the import of used cars. (Rzeczpospolita, B3) P.J.
