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, nr. 1, 12.) the following amendments: 1. Express article 1 by the following: "article 1. The terms used in the law, the law is applied in the following terms: 1) allows the regular transport of passengers (hereinafter referred to as the authorisation), the document that certifies the carrier's right to carry out regular commercial passenger route in the flight in accordance with the approved schedule;
2) bus: a vehicle for passengers (and nine more people, not including driver);
3) bus station: line building, which includes special buildings, and platform area for passenger and vehicle service routes;
4) transport: any movement of road vehicles along the road, carrying passengers or goods;
5) head of road transport (administrator): the carrier of the authorized person who arranges the shipment or the services associated with them;
6) road vehicle: a vehicle with the engine (except tractors and self-propelled machines) used for the transport of passengers or goods by bezsliež. Trailers and semi-trailers are considered part of the vehicle;
7) motorist — a person who directs a legal basis to the vehicle. The driver at the same time can also be the vehicle owner;
8) perishable goods quickly — agricultural and fish products, as well as other cargo which transportation special temperature and to be transported by specialized road vehicles;
9) luggage — things which led her to the passenger or by road vehicle;
10 bulk cargo — cargo), which consists of a loose mass and is shipped in bulk (sand, grain and similar goods);
11) — dangerous goods cargo transport or storage process, its characteristics can cause an explosion, fire or other damage, as well as the danger to the environment or human life or health;
12) forwarder: a natural or legal person who, in accordance with the Treaty, shall provide the shipper a transport expedition services;
13) hired vehicle: any vehicle which, for remuneration and for a certain period of time passed the host, which deals with the carriage of passengers or goods for hire or reward or own-account transport operations are carried out, under contract with a company that offers these vehicles;
14) cabotage — temporarily domestic passenger or freight transport by vehicles, which are carried out in another country, it is not registering the company, branch or subsidiary;
15) combined transport: the transport of goods where the lorry, trailer, semi-trailer, with or without tractor unit, or a combination thereof, or 20 or more feet in a container of departure (end) stage road, but the rest of the stage, rail, inland waterways or sea routes, if any of the road other than the road, more than 100 kilometres in a straight line. In the framework of the combined transport journey start (end) stage is carried out by road between the cargo loading (unloading) the site and the nearest loading (unloading) applied to the railway station or a radius not exceeding 150 km as the crow flies from the inland waterway port or seaport where cargo is loaded (unloaded);
16 cargo-transportation log) thing (products, goods, containers and bundles of other articles);
17) cargo possessor — a person who on the legal basis of cargo handled in his own name, regardless of whether the shipment is its property;
18) schedule: a transport operation mode in which certain bus (vehicle) movement, stopping and parking on the route of flight (flights), as well as the shipping lead time and date;
19) construction of the line, a special object (bus station, stop, working, drivers rest room URu.tml.), intended for the organisation of movement and passenger service routes;
20) route — chosen above the vehicle's path of movement between the two endpoints of the movement;
21) the consignor: person who transmits the transport of goods. Consignor and consignee may be the same person;
22) passenger — a person who, in accordance with the Treaty (ticket) or on other legal grounds used for driving the vehicle and baggage, as well as use other services provided by the carrier;
23) occasional services — regular services (including special regular services) definition according to passenger transport, carrying groups of passengers assembled on the initiative of the customer or the carrier himself. These services shall not cease to be occasional services solely so that specific time intervals;
24 passenger) regular services, transport of passengers by appropriate means in accordance with a specific timetable for the regular route on the specified preset driving and baggage fees;
25) special regular services of passengers-passenger regular services carrying certain categories of passengers;
26) passenger and freight transport (hereinafter referred to as the passenger and freight transport)-passengers and freight for a fee in the form of professional activity;
27) own-account transport operations — non-commercial carriage of passengers or goods, which are made with the merchant owned or leased vehicles, which are run by the same operator or his staff to the needs of economic operators for the transport of freight, which are his property or that he bought, leased the (renting), made, reworked, or free carriage of employees or other persons. Own-account transport operations are just the supporting activities of authorised economic operator;
28) carrier-merchant (person or entity), or with the agreement of the shipper, a passenger in or on another legal basis, assume the transport links;
29) recipient: the person in accordance with the contract of carriage of the cargo to be served on the endpoint;
30) international transport — transport by the need to cross the State border of Latvia;
31) liquid cargo, oil and oil products, alcohol, vegetable oil, animal fat and other cargo carried in sealed containers;
32) mixed traffic, passenger or cargo which by road and other transport to multiple carriers and the single transport document drawn up in all the driving path;
33) transport expedition services — with the shipment, transportation, receipt and storage of services and related work at the complex, which for a fee. "
2. in article 6: replace the first paragraph, the words "Transport Manager (administrator) the professional qualifications of the affirmative" with the words "professional competence";
Add to the first part of the text by the following: "special permit (license) gives the right to the economic operators to take the cargo with only their own vehicles or, Cabinet of Ministers, in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the other person owned road vehicles."
to complement the second paragraph after the word "commercial" with the words "certificate of professional competence".
3. Make the article 29 the following: ' article 29. Road vehicles for the carriage of passengers (1) passenger transport is made by road vehicles (buses, cars, etc.), which are designed for this purpose.
(2) light the taxi's passenger car designed for the carriage of passengers for individual order and equipped with a device that shows the service charge and provide income.
(3) the route taxi is a vehicle for passengers (maximum of 16 people, including the driver) for transportation for a set fare on the route previously established by a specific timetable, passengers being taken up and set down passengers at any point. "
4. To supplement the law with article 29.1 of the by the following: ' article 29.1. Scheduled passenger transport (1) has the following regular services of passengers: passengers on regular services by bus and passenger regular services by route taxi (except passenger regular international services).
(2) passenger transport by bus on scheduled passengers carried by bus for a set fare on the route previously established by a specific timetable, passengers being taken up and set down at predetermined stopping points.
(3) passengers on scheduled services with the route taxi passengers transported in a suitable vehicle (no parking), but not more than 16 seats (including the driver), for a set of predetermined fares on the route after a certain timetable, passengers being taken up and set down passengers at any point. "
5. Article 30:

replace the first subparagraph of paragraph 1, the words "passenger transport Manager (administrator) the professional qualifications of the supporting certificate" with the words "certificate of professional competence in the field of passenger transport";
to complement the fourth paragraph after the word "commercial" with the words "certificate of professional competence".
6. turn off article 32 in the fourth paragraph, the words "but in cities, the taksobus routes".
7. Express article 34 paragraph 2 of the third paragraph the following wording: "2) District, long distance and international routes — the carrier by matching with road owner."
8. Turn off article 37, first paragraph, the words "or his agent".
9. Article 39: make a fifth by the following: "(5) the maximum fee (tariffs) for the carriage of passengers and luggage with easy taxi down the local regulator to the law" on regulators of public services ".";
to supplement the article with the sixth part as follows: "(6) fare in occasional transport is determined by the carrier and the principal of mutual agreement."
10. To supplement the law with chapter V by the following: "chapter V transport characteristics of a Separate article 49. Speed limiters passenger and freight transport (1) buses laden mass exceeding 10 tonnes, and the trucks, laden mass exceeding 12 tonnes, equipped with a speed-restraining.
(2) the requirements in the specific category of vehicles equipped with these devices of speed and the use of the restraining order is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
50. article. Of combined transport services (1) carriers whose trucks are involved in combined transport, the application of tax relief (duty) under the tax laws.
(2) international treaties in cases of combined international transport does not need this law provided for in article 6.
(3) the procedures to be taken in the combo, the combo performing commercial transport or combined transport operations with a leased vehicle, as well as combined transport documents accompanying the cargo, the Cabinet of Ministers.
51. article. Own-account transport operations (1) international operations to be conducted in accordance with international agreements when designing the type of transport documents.
(2) the procedures to be taken in the passenger and freight operations are determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
52. article. Cabotage transport cabotage operations in the territory of Latvia is prohibited, except when they are carried out according to the Saeima approved international treaties and for each relevant movement issued a permit by the Ministry of transport. "
11. transitional provisions be supplemented with paragraph 8 by the following: ' 8. Article 49 of this law the provisions of the first paragraph apply to those engaged in international transport vehicles first registered after January 1, 1988, and national transport vehicles involved, which is first registered after 1 January 2003. "
The law shall enter into force on 1 January 2003.
The Parliament adopted the law of 9 May 2002.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga on 29 May 2002, the Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force by 1 January 2003.