site.btaBulgarian Transport Minister Demands 25 Per Cent Increase in Quota of ECMT/CEMT Permits for Road Hauliers

May 23 (BTA) - Bulgarian Transport, Information
Technology and Communications Minister Rossen Jeliazkov said
that the basic quota of ECMT/CEMT permits for Bulgarian road
hauliers should be increased by 25 per cent. Jeliazkov made the
demand at the Informal Meeting of Ministers in Charge of
Transport of the BSEC Member States held in Leipzig, his
Ministry said in a press release Thursday.

Jeliazkov argued that the increase of the permits for trucks in
the Euro 5 and 6 categories will ensure the gradual advance to a
 more sustainable and effective road carriage system in Europe.

The Bulgarian Transport Minister said that given the latest
geo-political events in Europe, Brexit, the likely consequences
from the so-called Mobility 1 package, and the fact that some
ECMT member states are looking for new markets, the ECMT/CEMT
quota may prove a real and practical instrument for opening new
opportunities for the international road haulage market.

Jeliazkov said that Bulgaria supports the removal of all
territorial and administrative obstacles in using the ECMT/CEMT
permits.

A CEMT permit (CEMT = Conference Europeenne des Ministres des
Transports/European Conference of Transport Ministers) allows
companies to transport goods across national borders between the
 43 CEMT member states. RY/ZH