The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law of road transport road transport Act be done (the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1995, nr. 20; 1997, no. 8; 1998, nr. 24; 1999, no. 21; 2001, 1., no. 12; 2002, 12, No 23. No; 2003; 2004, nr. 10) follows: 1. Article 1: expressions of paragraph 5 by the following: "5) Transport Manager (administrator)-carrier authorized natural person , who runs a trucking operation; "
Express 12 and 13 the following paragraph: "12") — merchant, shipper, which under the contract concluded with the shipper, organizes carriage and provided with these transport services;
13) hired vehicle: any vehicle which, for remuneration and for a certain period of time passed, a merchant who deals with commercial or own-account transport operations are carried out, under contract with the person who provides these vehicles; "
to supplement the article with 18.1 points as follows: "181) license card: certain forms of document issued by the carrier in respect of each road vehicle and proving that the carrier as the vehicle's owner or holder is provided for in the order received permission from special (license) commercial;";
Supplement 27 to the sentence the following wording: "for own-account transport operations are also considered, which according to its competence by the State or local government bodies, associations or institutions;".
2. To make article 4 by the following: "article 4. Public administration in the area of road transport (1) public administration in the area of road transport, in accordance with this Act and the regulations issued on the basis of legislation within its field of competence according to enforce the traffic Ministry, Interior Ministry, the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of welfare and their authorized bodies.
(2) the Ministry of transportation and its authorized bodies according to their competence by the State supervision over law and other regulatory compliance in the area of road transport, as provided for in the regulations issued by transport related documents, organise the transport control and cooperate with other authorized institutions in the field of international road transport. "
3. To supplement the law with article 5.1 by the following: ' article 5.1. The Directorate of road transport road transport Directorate, introducing passenger and freight road transport legislation, within the limits of its competence and in accordance with international and European Union requirements provided: 1) with road activities quality and development;
2) road industry information databases and administration;
3) national regulatory function information needed to make the road transport sector;
4) international intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements envisaged;
5) the participation of Latvia in international road transport operations within the agreement established the total Commission, European Conference of Ministers of transport (ECMT) and other road transport with road transport related international organization meetings. "
4. To make article 6 by the following: "article 6. Freight transport licensing (1) cargo may be carried out only if the Transport Manager (administrator) is a certificate of professional competence in the field of transport and the carrier has received the road Directorate issued a special permit (license).
(2) special permit (license) entitles the carrier to take the cargo with only his owned vehicles or, Cabinet of Ministers order — with another person-owned vehicles.
(3) the carrier that performs cargo with trucks in the territory of Latvia and international freight transport to lorries with a total permissible mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes, not including trailers, in respect of each road vehicle gets a license card.
(4) the procedure in question, to be cancelled or temporarily stopping the special permissions (licenses) and license cards for cargo vehicles, the certificate of professional competence and permits international goods transport is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
5. Supplement article 7 to the third part as follows: "(3) where the transport contract is concluded with a shipper and forwarder acts in determining the transport price in the contract, the shipper in accordance with this Act apply sender duties and responsibilities."
6. Express article 8, paragraph 2 of the third paragraph the following wording: "2) international transport of cargo;".
7. in article 9: to make the first part as follows: "(1) where other laws provide otherwise, the invoice shall be established at least in triplicate and signed by the shipper and the carrier. The first copy of the packing slip is issued to the consignor, the consignee, the second, and a third copy of the packing slip on the carrier. "
turn off the third part of paragraph 11.
8. Turn off the third subparagraph of article 29.
9. Article 30 of the expression as follows: "article 30. Passenger transport licensing (1) passenger transport by bus may only be carried out when the road Manager (administrator) is a certificate of professional competence in the field of transport and the carrier has received the road Directorate issued a special permit (license) for international or national transport or City Council of the Republic or the District Council issued a special permit (license) for the carriage of the relevant town or district.
(2) special permit (license) entitles the carrier to perform the carriage of passengers with only his owned vehicles or, Cabinet of Ministers order — with another person-owned vehicles.
(3) the carrier that performed the carriage of passengers by coach and bus within the territory of Latvia in respect of each road vehicle gets a license card.
(4) the road transport Directorate issued a special permit (license) gives the carrier the right to carriage of passengers by coach and bus in the city and district of the Republic also in administrative areas.
(5) the procedure in question, to be cancelled or temporarily stopping the special permissions (licenses) and license cards for road vehicles for the carriage of passengers by coach and bus, the certificate of professional competence, the permission of international passenger services, as well as the Organization of international transport of passengers and the operation of the route opening and closing procedures, amendment is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
10. Express article 33 the fifth subparagraph by the following: "(5) the registration of the bus traffic Ministry Cabinet."
11. Article 35: make the first paragraph by the following: "(1) for the carriage of passengers with easy taxi may be carried out only if a taxi driver is a driver competence card and the carrier has received a special permit (licence) issued by the Republican City Council or District Council. It approved licensing rules and determines in its administrative territory served the passenger taxi special permission (license) and the license number of the cards, and a taxi rank placement. ";
to supplement the article with the fourth paragraph as follows: "(4) the General passenger taxi drivers in the competency requirements and examination procedures established by the Cabinet of Ministers."
12. Replace article 38, second paragraph, the words "Ministry of transport" with the words "Cabinet".
13. Turn off the first part of article 49.
14. transitional provisions be supplemented with paragraph 9 and 10 by the following: "9. the Cabinet of Ministers of the date of entry into force of the provisions, but no longer than up to 2005 April 1 is in force the following provisions, in so far as they are not inconsistent with this law: 1) the Cabinet of Ministers on 19 September 2000, the provisions of no. 320" for the international carriage of goods authorization procedures ";
2) the Cabinet of Ministers of 23 December 2002 rules no. 547 "procedures for submitting passenger and freight road transport certificates of professional competence";
3) Cabinet of 19 august 2003, the rules of no 464 "procedures for organizing and carrying out international services of passengers by coach and bus, as amended and discovered the switch and issue the international agreements provided for permissions ';
4) by the Ministry of transport on 13 July 1999 the regulations No 23 "Bus registration procedures and a list of mandatory services";
5) by the Ministry of transport of 28 December 1999, the Regulation No 45 "rules for bus tickets and other travel documents optional properties".
10. This law, article 35 and the first part of the fourth part (for easy taxi drivers the competency requirements and assessment procedures) shall enter into force on 1 March 2006. Persons up to 1 March 2006 received special permission (license) the passenger taxi services, are exempt from the test sort. "
The law adopted by the Parliament in 2004 on December 2.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga 2004 December 15 Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force by December 29, 2004.