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The package of draft laws On Amendments to the Law on Motor Transport and On Amendments to the RA Code on Administrative Offenses was debated in the first reading. The Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Armen Simonyan presented it. The necessity to adopt the drafts is conditioned by the EAEU Protocol on Coordinated (Coordinated) Transport Policy to ensure the implementation of the programme for the phased liberalization of road cargo transportation between points located in the territory of another EAEU member state by carriers registered in the territory of one EAEU member state for the period from 2016 to 2025.

The programme was revised in accordance with the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of May 29, 2014 and is a process aimed at the formation of a single transport space of the Eurasian Economic Union, a common market for transport services, and the phased liberalization of the provision of road transport services by member states.

Currently, the regulation of cabotage transportation in Armenia is defined by Article 7.2 of the Law on Road Transport, according to which cabotage transportation is prohibited on the territory of the Republic of Armenia, except for cases stipulated by international agreements. In fact, at present, the Union’s cabotage transportation liberalisation programme is not fully regulated by law in the republic.

To implement the process, a draft law on Amendments to the Law on Road Transport has been revised, which stipulates that carriers from the EAEU member states may carry out cabotage transportation in the territory of the Republic of Armenia. The requirements for carriers from the member states of the Union to submit the necessary information to carry out cabotage transportation in the territory of Armenia will be approved by the authorized body.

The liberalisation of cabotage transport expects a reduction in the number of empty truck runs in the total volume of international transport, a reduction in the costs of transporting goods by road within the territory of the Union’s member states, a reduction in the number of violations of the procedure for transporting goods by road, an increase in the efficiency of using road transport vehicles when carrying out interstate cargo transportation, and a reduction in the harmful impact on the environment.

The member of the NA Standing Committee on Regional and Eurasian Integration Shirak Torosyan presented the endorsement of the Committee.

In the parliament the legislative package was debated at September 9 regular sitting.