The Transporters’ Organisation from Cahul intends to stage a protest in Cahul on December 14 against the Government’s intention to exclude the reequipped minibuses from public transportation. The protest’s goal is to protect the rights of the passenger and luggage carriers, and business patent holders. The protesters urge local and central authorities to abrogate point 5 of the Government decision no. 854 dated July 28 “regarding the regulation of passenger and luggage transportation by motor vehicles” that prohibits reequipped vans to convey members of the general public. According to the Government decision, the minibuses made in 1991-92 are to be withdrawn from traffic by the end of this year, while the other reequipped minibuses by the end of next year. The Organisation has staged several protests till now, but without any results. The Organisation’s head Oleg Reutchii stated earlier that besides excluding most of minibuses from the traffic, the local authorities in Cahul, led by mayor Gheorghe Zagorodnii, tries to suggest transporters what kind of cars to buy instead of those reequipped and even a standard colour for the public transport in Cahul. Thus, Zagorodnii suggests Ukrainian buses “Etallon” that cost about EUR 28,000 and ought to be, in mayor’s opinion, of yellow colour. Representatives of transporters in Cahul also say that local authorities have neglected to date all the carriers’ requirements regarding the increase in tariffs in public transport, which in Cahul is represented only by minibuses. Thus, until now, the price for a travel by minibus in this town is of 1.5 lei, while children, students and old people pay only 1 leu. The carriers from Cahul decided to request the state to pay damages for all expenses that they will have to cover while reequipping t minibuses, and as a result of depriving them of the constitutional right to work. They intend to sue for damages and in case the Constitutional Court fails, the carriers will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.