What solutions have the Romanian and Moldovan authorities found to streamline traffic at the common border?
“The meeting, within the inter-institutional group, was attended by representatives of other responsibilities for carrying out checks for freight traffic between the two states – customs, sanitary-veterinary, phytosanitary and road infrastructure management in both states, such solutions. identifies for the optimization of the traffic to be in accordance with the attributions of each institution, and to carry out the control to be carried out in compliance with the European regulations, in seeing that the border with the Republic of Moldova is the external border of the European Union.
Immediate stability measures in the working group on optimizing border traffic were targeted
- streamlining traffic by creating a green lane (additional control artery) for empty trucks and those carrying perishable goods
- additional to the staff of the Romanian Border Police, for the control of documents, with border guards on each service, since 10.06.2022
- supplementing the planned personnel to carry out the customs control of the goods to the Romanian Customs Authority, with six customs workers / duty shift, as well as the number of workstations, a measure also implemented.
Regarding the discussions with the representatives of the responsible authorities of the Republic of Moldova, they focused on technical aspects regarding the implementation of the pilot project for the establishment of joint control teams at the Romanian-Moldovan border.
The operating principles were established, the possibilities for placing the control tons, the personal number allocated for each institution, and will be implemented in the next period.
In this regard, it was proposed that the flows of goods be organized according to the load, so that there are possibilities for empty trucks to be routed by the Moldovan authorities to the crossing points with lower traffic values (Example: PTF Stânca-Costești ). – Botoșani and PTF Oancea-Cahul – Galați), in order to allow the trucks loaded with goods to be processed in the new procedure set by the authorities of the two.
The customs authorities of the Republic of Moldova are to inform the carriers that, after completing the online customs declarations, the parking time of a truck in PTF will be considerably reduced “, it is shown in the communiqué on. politiadefrontiera.ro.