Work on Vignettes bill delayed and will miss April launch

On Friday, Deputies from the Sejm Infrastructure Commission decided that work on the bill concerning the introduction of vignettes for passenger cars should be postponed until an independent analysis is prepared on whether the bill breaks the Constitution or European Law. "If there are objections to a bill, it is my task to appeal to the MPs to think it over and to analyze independent reports," said Sejm Speaker Marek Borowski. Infrastructure Minister Marek Pol admitted that there was little chance for the bill to come into force on April 1, 2003, as was originally intended. The main objection against the vignettes is that they represent a repetition of charges included in the price of petrol and motorway tolls. (Parkiet, p. 7) K.Z.