New era in road transport

Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan stated that they have developed methods to reduce bureaucracy and increase the use of e-government in document issuance with the Road Transport Regulation, which was published today in the Official Gazette.

Arslan, in his statement, evaluated the changes in the Road Transport Regulation, which was published in the current issue of the Official Gazette.

Stating that many regulations have been made in the legislation based on the problems conveyed to the Ministry, hesitations in the legislation and court decisions, Arslan said that changes have been made such as easing the conditions for obtaining documents and reducing the document fees by 50 percent.

Authorization certificate to be paid during the renewal of the vehicle card 98 pounds to the 60 pounds pointing to the Arslan, K1 authorization documents to reduce the requirements for the reduction of the document fees and cancellation of the documents for reducing the terms of the intended to prevent the grievances of the firms said.

Arslan emphasized that the companies, whose documents were canceled or lost the right to renew, were given the opportunity to obtain a 50 percent discount, and said, "The age conditions of those who provide the minimum capacity or have inspection for the vehicles to be added will be reduced / removed." said.

"Refunds can be made to the heirs"

Arslan pointed out that the mechanism of rewarding the owners of the authorization certificate in case of compliance with the rules was brought for the first time, in case of death of real persons, refund of the heirs can be made, he said.

Arslan explained that the vehicles of the type of van were left out of the scope and the regulation regarding the electronic notification was made and all the legal entities were registered with electronic mail (PEP) obligation.

Arslan emphasized that with the aforementioned regulation, the provisions of encouraging some companies which are considered as carriers to carry out logistic activities were introduced, and in the regulation of documents, methods were developed to reduce bureaucracy and increase the use of e-Government.

Pointing out that vehicle and agency contracts can now be made via e-Government, Arslan said, "It has been ensured that some documents that are required to be submitted can be returned by seeing the originals in order to prevent the citizens from giving money for notarization again." he spoke.

Arslan, passenger transport, disabled citizens to travel less expensive arrangements are made to ensure that the attention, said:

"By maintaining the current 30 percent discount, we increased the discount rate from 20 percent to 1 percent for 20 disabled passenger in buses up to 2 seats, and maximum 30 disabled passengers with more than 40 seats."

"Safe driving training was introduced"

Arslan stated that the control mechanism in the cargo purchase and delivery has been introduced with a security-based measure in cargo transportation and that additional measures have been determined for the protection of consumers.

Arslan emphasized that within the framework of the duty of ensuring traffic safety, an annual safe driving training was introduced within the scope of additional measures for drivers, and said, “Authorization certificate holders, the drivers they employ at least 7 hours, 70% practical, 30% private vocational competence courses 'will enable them to receive theoretical and safe driving training. " said.

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