The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: The Convention on the international transport of goods road transport vehicles used for taxation article 1. 14 December 1956 in Geneva signed the United Nations Convention on the carriage of goods in international traffic of road vehicles used for taxation (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) with this law is accepted and approved. 2. article. The law shall enter into force on the date of its promulgation. With the law put the Convention in English and its translation into Latvian language. 3. article. The Convention shall enter into force on its article 5 within the time and in order, and shall notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gazette "journal". The Parliament adopted the law of 24 April 1997. The President g. Ulmanis in Riga on 6 May 1997, the Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles Engaged in International goods transport done at Geneva on 14 December 1956 the Contracting Parties, the international good will facilitat (MENU RNGTON LINE4) transport by road, have AGREED as follows: article 1 For the purpose of this Convention: (a) the term ' vehicles ' shall mean all self-propelled road vehicles and all trailers for such vehicles imported whethers it went with the vehicle or separately; (b) the term "international goods transport" shall mean the industrial or commercial transport of goods with or without remuneration when the route taken at least one of the crosss frontier between two countries; (c) the term "tax or charges on transport" shall mean: Turnover tax and taxes of a similar kind, such as, for example, taxes on added value; Fees for the issue of transport licences or other documents not cessary; Tax or supplementary taxes payable on account of the transport operation concerned, over and above the tax chargeabl of a solely for the right to posses a vehicle or put it on the road. Article 2 vehicles which are registered in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties and the imported OK in the course of international goods transport into the territory of another Contracting Party shall, under the conditions laid down below, be exempted from the taxes and charges levied on the circulation or possession of vehicles in the territory of that Contracting Party. This exemption shall not apply to toll, tax or charges on consumption, or taxes or charges on transport. Article 3 1 shall be granted. this exemption in the territory of each Contracting Party so long as the condition laid down in the customs regulations in force in that territory for the temporary admission without payment of import duties and import taxes of the vehicles referred to in article 2, and the condition laid down in the regulations in force for the authorization of the transport concerned are fulfilled. 2. each Contracting Party may vertheles, exclude from the benefit of the exemption by any vehicle which it may engage in authoriz to transport when the points of departure and of destination are both situated within its territory. FINAL PROVISION article 4 1. Countries members of the Economic Commission for Europe and countries admitted to the Commission in a consultative capacity under paragraph 8 of the Commission's terms of reference, may become Contracting Parties to this Convention: (a) by signing it; (b) by ratifying it after signing it subject to ratification; (c) by acceding to it. 2. Such countries as may participat in certain activities of the Economic Commission for Europe in accordanc with paragraph 11 of the Commission's terms of reference may become Contracting Parties to this Convention by acceding to it after the theret entry into force. 3. The Convention shall be open for signature until 18 May 1957, inclusive. Thereafter, it shall be open for accession. 4. Ratification or accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Article 5 1. This Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day after five of the countries referred to in article 4, paragraph 1, have signed it without reservation of ratification or have deposited their instruments of ratification or accession. 2. For any country ratifying or acceding to it after five countries have signed it without reservation of ratification or have deposited their instruments of ratification or accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the said country has deposited its instrument of ratification or accession. Article 6 1. Any Contracting Party may denounc this Convention by so notifying the Secretary-General of the United Nations. 2. Denunciation shall take effect fifteen months after the date of receipt by the Secretary-General of the notification of denunciation. Article 7 this Convention shall cease to have effect if, for any period of twelve consecutive months after its entry-into force, the number of Contracting Parties is less than five. Article 8 1. Any country may, at the time of signing this Convention without reservation of ratification or of depositing its instrument of ratification or accession or at any time thereafter, declare by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations that this Convention shall extend to all or any of the territories for the international relations of which it is responsible. The Convention shall extend to the territory or territories named in the notification as from the ninetieth day after the receipt by it of the Secretary-General or, if on that day the Convention has not yet entered into force, at the time of its entry into force. 2. Any country which has made a declaration under the preceding paragraph extending the this Convention to any territory for whose international relations it is responsible may denounc of the Convention separately in respect of that territory in accordanc with the provision of article 6 article 9 1. Any dispute between two or more Contracting Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention shall so far as possible be settled by negotiation between them. 2. Any dispute which is not settled by negotiation, shall be submitted to arbitration if any one of the Contracting Parties in dispute so requests and shall be referred accordingly to one or more arbitrator selected by agreement between the parties in dispute. If within three months from the date of the request for arbitration the parties in dispute are unable to agree on the selection of an arbitrator or the arbitrator, any of those parties may request the Secretary-General of the United Nations to nominat a single arbitrator to whom the dispute shall be referred for decision. 3. The decision of the arbitrator or the arbitrator appointed under the preceding paragraph shall be binding on the Contracting Parties in dispute. Article 10 1. Each Contracting Party may, at the time of signing, ratifying, or acceding to, this Convention, declare that it does not consider itself as bound by article 9 of the Convention. Other Contracting Parties shall not be bound by article 9 in respect of any Contracting Party which has entered such a reservation. 2. Any Contracting Party having entered a reservation as provided for in the preceding paragraph may at any time withdraw such reservation by notifying the Secretary-General of the United Nations. 3. other reservations to this Convention shall be permitted. Article 11 1. After this Convention has been in force for three years, any Contracting Party may, by notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, request that a conference be convened for the purpose of reviewing the Convention. The Secretary-General shall notify all Contracting Parties of the request and a review of the data of lowing notifications by the Secretary-General, if, within a period of four months following the date of notification by the Secretary-General, not less than one third of the Contracting Parties notify him of their concurrence with the request. 2. If a Conference is convened in accordanc with the preceding paragraph, the Secretary-General shall notify all the Contracting Parties and invite them to submit within a period of three months such proposals as they may wish the Conference to consider. The Secretary-General shall circulate to all Contracting Parties the provisional agenda for the Conference together with the texts of such proposals at least three months before the date on which the Conference is to meet. 3. The Secretary-General shall invite to any conference convened in accordanc with this article all countries referred to in article 4, paragraph 1, and countries which have become Contracting Parties under article 4, paragraph 2 article 12 1. Any Contracting Party may proposes one or more amendments to this Convention. The text of any proposed amendments shall be transmitted by it to the Secretary-General of the United Nations who shall transmit it to all Contracting Parties and inform all other countries referred to in article 4, paragraph 1., 2. Any proposed amendment circulated in accordanc with the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be accepted if of the Contracting Party of an objection within a period express of six months following the date of circulation of the proposed amendment by the Secretary-General. 3. The Secretary-General shall, as soon as possible, notify all Contracting Parties an objection to the proposed whethers amendment has been expressed. If an objection to the proposed amendment has been expressed, the amendment shall be deemed not to have been accepted and shall be of of the effect whatever. If such objection has been expressed from the amendment shall enter into force for all Contracting Parties three months after the expiry of the period of six months referred to in the preceding paragraph. Article 13 In addition to the notifications provided for in articles 11 and 12, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify the countries referred it in article 4, paragraph 1, and the countries which have become Contracting Parties under article 4, paragraph 2, of: (a) Signature, ratification and accession under article 4; (b) the dates of entry into force of this Convention in accordanc with article 5; (c) Denunciation under article 6; (d) the termination of this Convention in accordanc with article 7; (e) notifications received in accordanc with article 8; (f) declarations and notifications received in accordanc with article 10, paragraphs 1 and 2; (g) the entry into force of any amendment in accordanc with article 12 article 14 After 18 May 1957, the original of this Convention shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit certified true cop to it in each of the countries mentioned in article 4, paragraphs 1 and 2. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized by the the theret , have signed this Convention. Done at Geneva, this fourteenth day of December one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, in a single copy in the English and French languages, each text being equally authentic.

Convention on the carriage of goods in international traffic of road vehicles used for taxation Geneva, 14 December 1956 in the Contracting Parties, to facilitate the international transport of goods by road, agreed on the following: 1. the article under this Convention: (a) "vehicle" means any motorized road vehicles and all trailers which are intended for the following piekabināšan vehicles, regardless of whether they are imported with the vehicle or separately; (b) "cargo international transport" means the carriage of goods for industrial or commercial purposes, whether or not for consideration, where the route will traverse at least one international boundary; (c) "taxes or charges for carriage" means: • turnover tax and similar taxes such as value added tax; • payments for licences for the service or other necessary documents; • additional duties or taxes paid in connection with the transport operation in question and that will be charged in addition to the duties imposed and only for the right to keep their property in the road vehicle or the use of their driving on the roads. Article 2 the road vehicles registered in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties and with international freight transport, are temporarily imported in the territory of the other Contracting Party, in accordance with these conditions, relief from taxes and duties which the Contracting Parties are charged for possession of the vehicles and use. These exemptions do not apply to the way the stages of charge, taxes or payments for consumption and taxes or payments for services. 3. Article 1 each Contracting Party of this exemption is to be granted as long as you run in the area of customs regulations in force for the conditions referred to in article 2 for vehicles entering temporarily without ievednodev and ievednodokļ and the conditions of the rules in force concerning permission to carry out the transport. 2. each Contracting Party, however, such exemption may not be assigned to the vehicle, which it may grant permission to carry out the services which the starting point and the end point is located in the territory of that Contracting Party. Final provisions article 4 1. Economic Commission for Europe, the Member States and countries which, under the Charter, paragraph 8 of the Commission is allowed to participate in the work of the Commission in a consultative capacity, may become a member of this Convention, in the following order: a) by signing it; (b)) after signing with added on the ratification of the agreement by ratifying it; c) joining. 2. States, in accordance with paragraph 11 of the Commission's statute can participate in certain activities of the Economic Commission for Europe, may become Contracting Parties to this Convention, by acceding to it after its entry into force. 3. This Convention shall be open for signature until 18 May 1957 inclusive. After that date it can join. 4. Ratification or accession shall be effected by the instrument with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. 5. Article 1. this Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after five of the article 4, paragraph 1 of the above countries have signed it without reservation of ratification or have deposited them in their instruments of ratification or accession. 2. For any State which ratifies or accedes to this Convention after five countries have signed it without reservation of ratification or deposited its instrument of ratification or accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the 90th day after the date on which that State deposited its instrument of ratification or accession. 6. Article 1 each Contracting Party may denounce this Convention by notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations of denunciation. 2. Denunciation shall take effect fifteen months after the date on which the Secretary-General of the United Nations has received the notification of denunciation. Article 7 of the Convention shall cease to have effect if, after the date of entry into force of any continuous twelve month period, the number of Contracting Parties is less than five. 8. Article 1. Each country, signing this Convention without reservation of ratification thereof or when depositing its instrument of ratification or accession, or at any time thereafter, you can to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General of the Declaration, declare that this Convention shall apply to all or any of the territories for which the country's international obligations it responsible. The statement said the area or areas of the Convention applicable to the ninetieth day after the receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General or, if on the day the Convention has not yet entered into force, from its entry into force. 2. for each State that made the Declaration referred to in the preceding paragraph in order to extend this Convention to any territory for whose international relations it is responsible, you can individually for defined areas, denounce this agreement in accordance with the procedure laid down in article 6. 9. Article 1. any dispute between two or more Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation or application of this Convention shall, wherever possible, be addressed through negotiations. 2. any negotiations unresolved dispute by participating in a dispute the request of a Contracting Party, be submitted to arbitration and shall be examined by one or more arbitrators, for which the choice of this mutual agreement between the parties. If, within three months from the date when the claim is submitted to arbitration, the parties to the dispute or of an arbitrator arbitrator selection can not agree, any of those parties may request the Secretary-General of the United Nations to appoint a single arbitrator to whom the dispute for decision is passed. 3. the arbitrator or arbitrators, who are assigned to the specified order in the previous paragraph, the decision is binding on all the parties to the dispute parties. 10. Article 1 each Contracting Party when signing this Convention or acceding to, ratifying, may declare that this Convention is not bound by article 9. Other Contracting Parties article 9 is not binding in relation to any Contracting Party, in the following statement. 2. any Contracting Party which, in accordance with the preceding paragraph announced the following disclaimer, you can withdraw it at any time by written notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. 3. no other reservations to this Convention are not permitted. 11. Article 1. After this Convention has been in force for three years, any Contracting Party may request that a conference be convened for the revision of this Convention by notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. On the request by the Secretary-General shall notify all the Contracting Parties, and if within four months from the date of dispatch of this notice, not less than one third of the Contracting Parties has endorsed these proposals, the Secretary-General shall convene such a Conference. 2. Where, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Conference shall be convened by the Secretary-General shall notify all the Contracting Parties and invite them to submit within a period of three months the proposals for a Conference discussion questions. Not later than three months before the opening day of the Conference, the Secretary-General shall circulate to all Contracting Parties the provisional agenda of the Conference, and the text of the proposal. 3. To any conference that is convened in accordance with this article, the Secretary-General invited all States referred to in article 4 of the Convention, paragraph 1, and also those States which become Contracting Parties Article 4, paragraph 2. 12. Article 1 each Contracting Party to this Convention may propose to make one or more amendments. The text of any proposed amendment shall be transmitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who in turn forward it to all Contracting Parties, as well as make it available to all other countries referred to in article 4 of this Convention 1. 2. any proposed amendment that spread in the previous paragraph in the order shall be deemed to be accepted if within six months from the date of circulation of the proposed amendment by the Secretary-General of the text, no Contracting Party against it not make any objections. 3. the Secretary-General shall as soon as possible inform all Contracting Parties of the objections expressed to the proposed amendment. If to the proposed amendment has been expressed, the amendment is not adopted and does not have legal force. If no objection has been expressed, the amendment in respect of all the Contracting Parties shall enter into force three months after the end of the previous paragraph for a period of six months. 13. Article 11 of the Convention in addition to, and provided for in article 12 notifications by the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify the Convention article 4, paragraph 1, in those countries as well as countries which have become Contracting Parties in accordance with article 4, paragraph 2, on the following: (a) signature, ratification and accession in accordance with article 4; (b) on the date of entry into force of the Convention in accordance with article 5; (c) denunciation under article 6; (d) the termination of this Convention in accordance with article 7; (e) notifications received in accordance with article 8; (f) declarations and notifications received in accordance with article 10, paragraph 1 and 2; (g) each of the entry into force of the amendment in accordance with article 12. 14. after article 18 May 1957 the original of this Convention shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, which each of the Convention article 4 1 and 2 of these countries sends the certified copy of this Convention. Stating the above, this Convention signed by authorised persons. Drawn up in Geneva, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-sixth year of the fourteenth of December, in a single copy in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic.