ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION FORINTERNATIONAL ROAD TRANSPORTS

APPLICATION OF TIR CONVENTION IN THE BALKAN REGION

Issues and scope for improvements- ARTRI’s point of view -

Presentation: Cristian Şerban – Deputy Secretary General, ARTRI

REGIONAL TIR SEMINARSofia, 11 and 12 May 2006

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

TIR Regime in Romania

New horizons along the strong ones

TIR Carnets issued for Romania

Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 TOTAL

TIR Carnets

363.800 462.600 472.900 486.300 514.700 2.300.300

0

100.000

200.000

300.000

400.000

500.000

600.000

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

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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):

SafeTIR data transmission

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SafeTIR data transmission

Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Average transmission period (days)

56 29 7 5 5

Average SafeTIR data transmission period (days)

0102030405060

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

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.

TIR Regime in Romania

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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)

Current issues

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).

Future developments

Thank you for your attention.

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