On March 16, Moscow / Eduard Pivovar - BELTA /. The State Duma of Russia ratified today the intergovernmental Belarusian-Russian agreement on carrying out transport control on the external border of the Union State, BELTA correspondent reports. The agreement was signed in Minsk on October 5, 2010. Its purpose is to simplify the movement of goods and vehicles within the Union State, as well as to coordinate the transport (road) control bodies of the two countries when carrying out international road transport, both through the territory of Russia and through the territory of Belarus. The implementation of the document will create conditions for moving transport control from the Russian-Belarusian border to the external border of the Union State. In addition, a legal basis is being created for organizing information exchange between the transport (road) control bodies of Belarus and Russia. The agreement also introduces the concepts of "external border of the Union State", "internal border", and "weight and dimensional parameters of a vehicle". It is envisaged that vehicles travelling to the state of one party through the territory of the state of the other party shall be subject to transport (road) control at control points located on the external border of the Union State, in accordance with the legislation of the state of the party through the territory of which the said vehicles are travelling. -0-

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