OREANDA-NEWS. On February 10, 2009 Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine called on local executive authorities and local self-government bodies not to afford groundless raising of tariffs for passenger conveyance. With respective letters to the heads of regional state administrations and heads of local councils acting head of the Committee Olexandr Melnychenko addressed.

It concerns, notably such tariffs as fares in municipal transport and conveyance in the regions, approval of which is within responsibility of the local authorities. It is not just connected with fares for buses, trolley-buses, trams and underground but for minibuses of communal property form.

The Committee stresses on absence of reasons to raise such tariffs. It is entailed from economic analysis of the situation completed in the framework of the case with Kyiv authorities and communal conveyors of the capital, in the result of which the Antimonopoly Committee achieved reducing tariffs for land transport and underground respectively by 50 and 30 kopecks. On the data of Kyiv Metropoliten enterprise, cutting of metro fare will amount 70-100 million hryvnyas annually.

 Moreover, the Committee is concerned over the fact that transport tariffs are formed by conveyors themselves, often including non-grounded expenses.

According to acting head of Antimonopoly Committee, Minister of Economics Bohdan Danylyshyn was also sent an official request that the State Inspection of Price Control and their regional departments had held checks of order of forming, introduction and use of regulated tariffs concerning compliance with the legislation and economic grounding. In case of violations, the Economics Ministry will have grounds to forward reasoned requests for involvement of Antimonopoly Committee, which will serve as further realization of a legal mechanism of influence on transport tariffs which undergo state regulating.