The amendment to the law "On Customs Regulation" proposes to solve the problem of accumulations at border crossing points. Hamlet Sahakyan, deputy chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee, said this at the February 4 session of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs.
With the project, the Government proposes to introduce a management system for trucks leaving the Republic of Armenia.
According to the reporter, the experience of the European Union and Georgia was studied in terms of introducing a queue management system. Also, a survey was conducted among businessmen engaged in cargo transportation, in which 45 subjects participated. "About 87 percent of the respondents answered that they often meet queues at the land crossing points, and about 62 percent stated that the duration from the beginning of the queue to entering the customs point is on average 3 hours," Hamlet Sahakyan informed, adding that 73 percent of the respondents emphasized that there is a need for paid parking for trucks near the land crossing points.
In order to solve the mentioned problem, it is proposed to plan activities for the organization of paid parking spaces no more than 20 km away from the automobile crossing points of the state border, within the framework of which an automatic electronic queue management system will operate for the purpose of recording the movement of cargo vehicles, queuing, and exchanging the necessary information aimed at granting permission to enter the crossing point.
It is planned that the Government will define the procedure for joining the queue management system, the requirements to be submitted to the operators of collective parking spaces, the maximum amount of the fee for the queuing service in the collective parking lots of trucks departing from RA, the content of the application to join the queue management system, etc.
The draft discussed in the first reading was approved by the committee.
