| Results of the 17th Meeting of the BSEC-URTA General Assembly |  25 June 2010 | The 17th meeting of the BSEC-URTA General Assembly was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 22 June 2010, being hosted by the BSEC-URTA Member Association from Georgia, the GIRCA, with the participation of the IRU Secretary General Mr. Martin Marmy, PABSEC Vice-Chairman Mr. George Goguadze, Deputy Head of United Transport Administration of Georgia Mr. Genrikh Muradiani.
The BSEC-URTA General Assembly evaluated the progress made with respest to the BSEC-URTA Priorities for 2010, such as the BSEC Agreement on Simplification of Visa Procedures for Professional Drivers, the BSEC Permit, the BSEC Licence and the International Vehicle Weight Certificate. In particular, it was stressed that the BSEC Permit should be further developed allowing in addition to transit journeys, bilateral road transport of goods and empty entrance of trucks. In this regard, a special joint delegation between the TOBB, the UND and the BSEC-URTA International Secretariat is to be set up in order to receive the support of authorities in Turkey concerning the development of this Permit.
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| 17th Meeting of the BSEC-URTA General Assembly | 14 June 2010 | The BSEC-URTA International Secretariat announces that the Seventeenth Meeting of the BSEC-URTA General Assembly is going to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 22 June 2010.
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| BSEC Ministers of Transport met in Sofia |  16 April 2010 | Ministers of Transport of the BSEC Member States met in Sofia on 14-15 April 2010 under the Chairmanship of the Republic of Bulgaria in BSEC. At the Meeting, the Deputy Secretary General of the BSEC-URTA Mr. Adrian Albu participated and delivered a speech where he emphasized the utmost importance of legal framework created for development of transport in the BSEC region such as projects on the development of the Black Sea Ring Highway and Motorways of the Sea in the BSEC Region, but especially the Memorandum of Understanding on Facilitation of Road Transport of Goods in the BSEC as the tool for improvement of appropriate infrastructure, procedures and quality of services.
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| Meeting of the BSEC Working Group on Transport | 26 March 2010 | The Meeting of the BSEC Working Group on Transport was held in Istanbul on 24 March 2010. The Meeting took place at the premises of the Permanent International Secretariat of the BSEC Organization in Istanbul, and was chaired by the representative of Bulgarian BSEC Chairmanship-in-office. Representative of the BSEC-URTA International Secretariat Deputy Secretary General Mr. Adrian Albu participated at the meeting as Sectoral Dialogue Partner.
Under the item of the agenda on Facilitation of Road Transport of Goods in the BSEC Region, the delegations of the Republic of Armenia, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Turkey noted the positive developments going on within the implementation of the BSEC pilot project on the BSEC transit permit and reiterated their support to the project.
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| The BSEC Permit has entered into force in 7 BSEC Member States | 16 February 2010 | Today, on 16th of February, in Istanbul, a special event organized by TOBB took place on the occassion of entry into force of the BSEC Permit. Seven BSEC Member States, namely Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Turkey are participating in a Pilot Project within a framework of which the 1,400 BSEC Permits have been printed and distributed to the Participating Member States.
The President of the BSEC-URTA Mr. Vladimir Florea participated in this event and delivered a speech. “I am very confided that the BSEC Permit will be a successful project, which will be developed in the short future by joining of other BSEC Member States and enlarging its actual scope by admitting loading and unloading operations and extending the usage from 1 journey to multiple journeys over 1 calendar year. In fact what I mean is transformation of the BSEC Transit Permit into a BSEC Regional license similar in nature with the ECMT license”, - he said.
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| Info: Updated Information on Implementation of the BSEC Permit | 21 December 2009 | During the 4th Meeting of the BSEC Steering Committee for Facilitation of Road Transport of Goods in the BSEC Region on 9th September 2009, a group of 7 interested BSEC Member States: Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Turkey, decided that as of 1 January 2010 on an experimental basis will start using between them, a BSEC Transit Permit having the form of a single document to be printed and distributed to the parties by the BSEC Permanent International Secretariat in Istanbul.
On 17 December 2009 in Istanbul’s BSEC Headquarters took place an Informal Meeting of Experts from Participating BSEC Member States to the Pilot Project for Introduction of the BSEC Permit for Transit Road Transport. The Participants considered and endorsed the Draft Template and User Guide of the BSEC Transit Permit and agreed on a Timetable for the Implementation of the BSEC Permit.
See the Final Template of the BSEC Permit, the User Guide of the BSEC Permit, Conclusions of the Informal Meeting and the List of Participants.
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| EATL Expert Group Meeting and Regional Workshop on Developing Euro-Asian Transport Links (EATL) Regional Workshop |  11-13 November 2009 |The 3rd EATL Expert Group Meeting and Regional Workshop on Developing Euro-Asian Transport Links were held in Istanbul, at the BSEC Headquarters, on 11-13 November 2009. The events were organized jointly by the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Turkey, UN Economic Commission for Europe and Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
The representatives of the UNECE and BSEC Member States, governmental organizations (BSEC, BSRH JPTS, OSCE, OSJD, OTIF, PABSEC, UNCTAD, UNECE) and non-governmental organizations (BASPA, BSEC-URTA, CIT, FIATA, IRU, "PLASKE" JSC, TEN-T, TOBB, UIC) took part in the events.
The event was structured under 2 main sections:
Session 1. Transport infrastructure , facilitation and policies in the BSEC region
Session 2. International initiatives in the EATL Region
See the detailed Information about the event
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| BSEC-URTA congratulates the new elected IRU leadership for 2010-2011 |  06 November 2009 | In Geneva, on 06 November 2009, the IRU General Assembly elected its leadership for the term of office 2010-2011.
As President of IRU, was reelected Mr. Janusz Lacny. The BSEC-URTA International Secretariat congratulates Mr. Lacny on the IRU achievements under his leadership and wishes him much success in this new term of office.
The new leadership of the IRU, with effect as of 1 January 2010 is as follows:
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| Results of the 16th Meeting of the BSEC-URTA General Assembly | 04 November 2009 | The 16th meeting of the BSEC-URTA General Assembly was held in Geneva being hosted by the IRU’s Secretary General, Mr. Martin Marmy, with the participation of HE. Ambassador Leonidas Chrysantoupoulos, Secretary General of the BSEC Organization and Mrs. Viriginia Tanase, Economic Affairs Officer of UNECE Transport Division. The representatives of the above mentioned international organizations highly appreciated the contribution of the BSEC-URTA to their work and activities as well as to the progress achieved under the implementation of the MoU on Facilitation of Road Transport of Goods in the BSEC Region.
The BSEC-URTA elected its Vice Presidents for 2010: Mr. Tofig Nurullayev (ABADA) and Mr. Evgeny Moskvichev (ASMAP) and the Secretary General for 2010-2013, Mr. Haydar Ozkan. The Observer Status of Ingosstrakh ( Russia) and Medjunarodni Transport (Serbia) was renewed for the period 2010-2014 and Member Association Status was granted to UNTRR (Romania)
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