ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL ROAD TRANSPORTS

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ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION FORINTERNATIONAL ROAD
TRANSPORTS
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REGIONAL TIR SEMINARSofia, 11 and 12 May 2006
APPLICATION OF TIR CONVENTION IN THE BALKAN
REGION
Issues and scope for improvements - ARTRIs point
of view -
Presentation Cristian Serban Deputy Secretary
General, ARTRI
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TIR Regime in Romania
New horizons along the strong ones

• Romania is a signing party of the T.I.R.
  Convention (1975) since 1979.
• Two national guaranteeing associations
• (ARTRI and UNTRR)
• - ARTRI (Romanian Association for International
  Road Transports) national guaranteeing
  association for the TIR Carnets issued to its TIR
  Holders all TIR Carnets used on Romanian
  territory by foreign TIR Holders.
• - UNTRR (National Union of Romanian Road
  Transporters) guaranteeing association for the
  TIR Carnets issued to its TIR Holders

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TIR Carnets issued for Romania
New horizons along the strong ones
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 TOTAL
TIR Carnets 363.800 462.600 472.900 486.300 514.700 2.300.300
600.000
500.000
400.000
300.000
200.000
100.000
0
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
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SafeTIR data transmission
New horizons along the strong ones

• Memorandum of Understanding agreed between
  ARTRI, IRU and Romanian Customs, regarding the
  transmission of SafeTIR data
• Constant increasing of the accuracy and volume
  of transmitted SafeTIR data
• Decreasing of the average transmission period
  for SafeTIR data (from 56 days to 5 days)

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SafeTIR data transmission
New horizons along the strong ones
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Average transmission period (days) 56 29 7 5 5
Average SafeTIR data transmission period (days)
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
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TIR Regime in Romania
New horizons along the strong ones

• Excelent public-private partnership developed
  between the Romanian guaranteeing associations
  and the Romanian Customs
• (2001)
• Memorandum of Understanding signed by ARTRI,
  IRU and Romanian Customs, regarding the
  transmission of SafeTIR data
• (2003)
• National Program of Customs Frauds Prevention
  in the International Road Transports
• (2005)
• TIR Green Lanes
• - Traffic fluidisation through border customs
  points between ROMANIA-BULGARIA and
  ROMANIA-HUNGARY)
• - Drastical decreasing of the waiting times
  in border (to only 10 minutes).
• Optimisation of SafeTIR data transmission and
  TIR Admission procedures.

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Current issues
New horizons along the strong ones

• 19 EUR TIR Carnet processing tax illegally
  claimed in Hungarian Customs Offices of border
• 10 EUR disinfection tax established between
  Romania and Bulgaria
• Weighting problems (both in Romania and
  Bulgaria)
• (Non-)application of the TIR Convention in
  regions like Kosovo, Transnistria and
  Serbia-Montenegro.
• Isolated problems with foreign TIR Holders
  transiting Romania (few Turkish trucks not
  approved correctly)

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Future developments
New horizons along the strong ones

• further improvement of the actual
  public-private partnership established between
  national guaranteeing associations, IRU and
  Romanian National Customs Authority.
• role of the TIR Carnet, as a border crossing
  facilitation instrument, as well as the local
  importance of the application of TIR Convention
  will diminish
• (IF Romania and Bulgaria will join the EU in
  2007).

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