The Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine continues to prepare for the development of a new eCherha service feature - the ability to register in the system for passenger car drivers to cross the border. As part of this work, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the possibility of information exchange between the eCherha system and the Diia portal.

The relevant amendments to Resolution No. 1349 were endorsed at a Government meeting on 27 February.

The approved amendments stipulate that booking a place in the queue for border crossing will be possible both through the eCherha application and the Diia application.

"We are consistent in our efforts to digitise the border crossing process. Our ambitious goal is for all vehicles to leave the country without having to wait at the border. Every driver, passenger, and carrier should be confident that they will cross the border on time, get to the airport, or deliver their goods on time. For more than a year, eCherha has been working for trucks, we have recently scaled it for buses, and we are simultaneously starting preparations to develop a completely different functionality for cars. The main challenge is that eCherha has different service logic for different types of transport. In fact, we are developing a different algorithm from scratch. At the same time, we plan to launch testing of this feature for passenger cars by the end of the year," said Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine, Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov.

It should be reminded that 802,000 vehicles have crossed the border using the eCherha service. This includes 756,000 trucks and 46,000 buses.

The Electronic Border Crossing Queue eCherha project is being implemented by the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine in cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Ukrtransbezpeka, the State Agency for the Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, the State Customs Service of Ukraine and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine with the support of the USAID/UK aid Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services/ TAPAS project.