The Confederate press conference attended by Euro MP Tomasz Buczek, Mr Michał Waver, Mr Rafał Mekler and Mr Zbigniew Czubasz, on 17 February 2025,
Tomasz Buczek:
– Mr Zbigniew Czubaszek, the individual we will be talking about today, in the interests of which we will be speaking today. Mr Zbigniew has a fine of EUR 1 100 000 to pay! punishment for a thing he has not committed, for a thing he is not obliged to pay in our assessment, due to the fact that it is charged unjustly by the Croatian financial dimension, by a Croatian customs institution.
Mr Zbigniew carried the cargo on the Belgian-Croatia route, which was subject to excise work in the explanation of Croatian financial authorities. But that's the work of carriers, they have companies that broadcast, they store, they choice up. In no place can it be the man behind the wheel. Mr Zbigniew is an honest person, he is simply a individual who has done his work honestly, he is simply a driver with many years of experience, and he has worked 13 years in this company that has not completed any formality – which either failed or possibly did not know that this should be done.
Anyway, it is Mr. Zbigniew present who must endure the consequences of ignorance, ignorance of regulations or deliberate action. And the Polish state did not work in this case.
The Polish state did not emergence to the challenge. We reported this issue to Polish institutions, the Polish Ministry of abroad Affairs, the Polish consul in Croatia – unfortunately no 1 has taken up this topic. We're taking it today. We'll talk about it, we'll make it public.
I will be gathering with Croatian politicians who, I hope, will influence the Croatian authority, who clearly does not recognise the CMR Convention, which simply says that the driver is not liable for the consequences that I have previously suffered for the abovementioned institutions.
It cannot be that the Polish driver is going on tour and returning with a million euros of debt! Mr. Zbigniew present has this money downloaded from his account. He can't usually run his existence, he can't usually guarantee the safety of his household due to the fact that he's just being bid on.
We think that this is not right due to the fact that quite a few regulations can be changed. For example, a bill, which at this point is, let's say, in any sense, at a alternatively slippery pace, but it is made, which says that, for example, a chain of intermediaries in transport should be kept to a minimum, due to the fact that all another intermediary is the threat of the situation we are talking about in Mr Czubasz. About a situation where individual can bargain a commodity, they can embezzle a commodity, they can usage the carrier.
Transporters are people who very frequently hazard their wealth, just like Mr. Czubaszek here. It's Mr. Czubasz, the driver, where the company has already turned out to be insolvent at the end, that driver collects due to the fact that the driver has any money, he has any salary, whatever, so you collect the driver. This is, ladies and gentlemen, the reality of transport so that you will be aware.
Very often, in transport, you are at risk, just for the best. It is simply a dense part of bread, and especially dense at the present moment, erstwhile we see that we are, however, the beneficiaries of this economical downturn, the deconicture, the decline in economical exchange. We see that the charges are little and this is besides an impulse to take on increasingly risky loads from increasingly unverified partners. And that results in specified situations!
This is incompatible with CMR. The CMR Convention is simply a convention that regulates global transport, which is governed by virtually most countries in the world. I'll just read article eleven: “In order to carry out customs or another formalities to be completed before the goods are released, the consignor should attach the papers needed to the consignment note or make available to the carrier and supply it with any information requested”.
In this case, it is the sender, or forwarding, who is most likely no longer present, that has not fulfilled the most average in the planet of these duties, and this results in the fact that at the end of the man who works for his family, a debt has been transferred, which for very many people is actually unimaginable – and even at the level of income that this gentleman earns, it is unprofitable.
As a Confederate, we have repeatedly said that we request to improve many issues in the transport industry. We request to safe the carrier's welfare, the driver's welfare. It is for this reason that the Polish carriers who represent the Polish state are working for the Polish state, so that the Polish State takes care of their interests. And that's what we want right now. Thank you very much.
Today we stand up for Mr. Zbigniew Czubasz, who has been charged with an unwarranted punishment of EUR 1 100,000 by Croatian customs.
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Rafał Mekler:
As a carrier, I frequently encounter situations where unfair shipping, dishonest intermediaries effort to exploit carriers. Since the carrier is on site, the carrier loads the goods, the carrier physically carries the goods, so it is as if on the front line of this transport and is the easiest to hit the carrier.
From my own practice, I really know a situation where a colleague paid almost PLN 800,000 out of his own pocket just due to the fact that the forwarding, the intermediary who ordered him this cargo, usually in the planet stole this cargo from the sender!
Of course, here the final beneficiary in a negative sense was my colleague, who suffered a serious loss, due to the fact that just like here in your case No one's interested. Well, whoever's at the end, who's physically, let's say, debt collection, is the individual you use.
Michael Waver:
The first work of the Polish State, officials of the Polish State, is to take care of the interests of the Polish citizen, the interests of the Polish entrepreneur and worker in global relations.
This situation, which we are proceeding about today, is unfortunately a typical situation, a situation which happens regularly, that within any large manufacture – whether transport or construction – as part of the turnover of large amounts, large taxes, large investments, at the end of this process is simply a Polish entrepreneur or an worker of a Polish company endowed with a large scope of responsibility, which at any point is burdened with immense costs of individual else, in another area of this chain, at another point of this process. That individual stole the money, that individual didn't make the paperwork, that individual didn't make certain that the procedures were done properly.
And it cannot be that, in specified a situation, this God of the spirit is to blame for the Polish entrepreneur or employee, and the authorities of the Polish State are besides supporting these claims.
The first task of Polish officials, the first task of representatives of the Polish authorities, is to take care of the interests, health, life and average functioning of the Polish citizen. This is what we request in this situation, and for this as MEPs, as MEPs and activists of the Confederation and the National Movement, we will fight to guarantee that all another Polish citizen who finds himself in a akin situation is effectively supported by the Polish State.
Today we stand up for Mr. Zbigniew Czubasz, who has been charged with an unwarranted punishment of EUR 1 100,000 by Croatian customs.
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Zbigniew Czubaszek:
I got a tour, I work for a SEB-TRANS transport company. I worked, I'm sorry, at the SEB-TRANS transport company for over 12 years, almost 13. I never failed the owner of the company on my tour, on my job. I got this tour recently, so I went, loaded the goods, the town of Łukowa, went to Belgium, delivered the goods.
I got another documents, got a call that I was going to Croatia. So I went to Croatia. Nobody told me to pay the excise duty. I am obliged to pay specified a fee. On the Croatian border, I was detained, so it came out, they took everything just, I came home, unfortunately.
After any time, I wrote to the President's office – in the opposite, to the Prime Minister of the Government – in the opposite.
I don't know where to go at all, what to do, how to do. You can't live with a debt like that, let's start with that. You don't know whether to sleep or what'll happen tomorrow, what's coming to me. It's tough, too. This is unbelievable.
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