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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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| Meetings: 21st Meeting of the BSEC Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs | 22 October 2009 | The 21st Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of BSEC Member States took place in Baku, Azerbaijan on 22 October 2009.
Please see below the Progress Report of the Secretary General on the Operations and Activities of the BSEC PERMIS (May – October 2009) related to the transport activities developed by the Organization in partnership with International Organizations and Sectoral Dialog Partners under the Azeri Chairmanship of the BSEC Organization (01 May 2009-31October 2009).
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| A concrete step towards facilitation of road transport in the region under a new Project to be developed by the BSEC Organization: The BSEC Transit Permit for the International Road Transport of Goods! | 11 September 2009 | The BSEC Steering Committee for Facilitation of Road Transport of Goods met on 9 September 2009 in Istanbul with very important items on its Agenda, worth to be mentioned two of them:
- Consideration and eventual approval of the Draft Template and Usage Guidelines of a BSEC Transit Permit.
- Establishment of an Ad Hoc Project Group of interested countries for creation of the multilateral license system similar to the ECMT license.
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.
At the same time 6 interested Member States formed a new Project Group with the task of creation of a regional quota system of permits similar in nature e with the ECMT system.
The representatives of IRU and BSEC-URTA participated and brought their contribution to the meeting.
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| Meetings: 20th Meeting of the BSEC Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs | 17 April 2009 | The 20th Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of BSEC Member States took place in Yerevan, Armenia on 16 April 2009.
Please find below the Council position related to the transport activities developed by the Organization in partnership with International Organizations and Sectoral Dialog Partners under the Armenian Chairmanship of the BSEC Organization (01 November 2008-30 April 2009).
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| BSEC continues taking important steps towards actual liberalisation and facilitation of road transport in the Black Sea region | 12 February 2009 | BSEC organized a Public-Private Roundtable on Implementation of the MoU on Facilitation of Road Transport of Goods, in Istanbul on 10 February, which was followed by meetings of the BSEC Steering Committee of the MoU on 11 February and the BSEC Working Group on Transport on 12 February.
The meetings led to important decisions for facilitation or road transport around the Black Sea basin. Among others, the BSEC Member States requested the IRU and BSEC-URTA to draft together a format and usage rules of a ‘BSEC Permit’, which would allow a truck to transit across the BSEC region inter alia with a single document. ‘BSEC Permit’ will be printed and distributed by the BSEC Permanent International Secretariat according to agreement of each BSEC Member State under annual bilateral agreements with other BSEC Member States. Furthermore, BSEC Organisation also continues working for creation of a regional license system similar in nature to the ECMT licenses, between the interested Member States.
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