The EU will allow Metrowagonmash to continue servicing the Budapest metro

Hungary has made the European Union exclude the supply of “Metrovagonmash” from the 11th package of sanctions against Russia, reports Bloomberg. The European authorities intend to allow the Russian company to continue to supply Hungary with the parts needed to service the Budapest metro.

According to documents obtained by the agency, “protective glass, certain types of equipment and certain valves” necessary for the operation of the third line of the Budapest metro will be removed from the ban. In addition, the EU will allow the Russian company to supply telephones, signaling devices, as well as metro and tram cars. In total, 14 items of goods were included in the list of exceptions.

According to Bloomberg, Metrovagonmash carried out a major overhaul of the trains of this metro line in the Hungarian capital in 2017, but a quarter of them have now been decommissioned due to inappropriate quality.

On the eve it became known that the permanent representatives of the European Union agreed 11th package of sanctions against Russia. It includes restrictive measures against 70 individuals and 30 legal entities, the northern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline and a ban on the entry of trailers from Russia, said Polish Ambassador to the EU Andrzej Sados.

In May Tbilisi City Hall stated, which cancels the contract with the Russian “Metrovagonmash” for the supply of cars for the subway due to the company from Russia being on the sanctions list of the US Treasury. Metrovagonmash was included in it on May 19.

Kirill Sarkhanyants