The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation informed that the Moldovan units of transport involved in international road transport from August 14 will be able to enter Russia only based on authorizations, IPN reports.

According to the National Motor Transport Agency of Moldova, the procedures for the coming into force of the intergovernmental bilateral agreement on international road transport that was signed on May 31 were completed. The Russian side pledged to issue the Moldovan transport operators with 75,000 authorizations for goods transit and bilateral transport and 750 authorizations for the transportation of goods to or from third countries.

The authorizations will be issued at the Agency’s one-stop shop as of August 8, 2017. As regards occasional passenger transportation services, authorizations for these haven’t been yet issued by the Ministry of Transport of Russia.

Earlier, the Russian Federation postponed the introduction of authorizations for goods transit and bilateral transport for Moldovan operators until September 1, but later shortened the period to August 14.