Transport Ministry will pass to electronic licensing of commercial road transport services

Ministry of Transport approved the administrative regulation of electronic services in the  sphere of licensing commercial vehicles.  The document (http://huquqiaktlar.gov.az/StatementDetails.aspx?statementId=29448), regulating the acceptance  of appeals, and  the list of required documents for the issuance of licenses in scanned form,  came into force on June 30.

The Regulation is  applied for all kinds of transportation services (urban, intercity and international passenger transport, freight transport and taxi services.) According to regulations, the services provided by the Ministry of Transport through Internet resources www.e-gov.az and www.e-transport.gov.az and State Road Transport service (central office and 16 area offices.) To receive a license nine documents.  are required. Electronic appeal  is considered within 15 days. If there are no mistakes in it, the side which appealed  will be sent an e-mail notification, shat makes possible to pay for a five-year license, which costs from 150 to 200 manat based on the kind of activity.

The Head of the Public Association “Independent Transport Workers”, Natig Alekberov, said Turan, that the active introduction of e-services in the area of ​​licensing of motor transport services will create conditions for elimination of existing shortcomings here and informal relationships that are not always resolved in favor of the subjects of the transport service. According to him, the problems are mostly in the area of ​​licensing of taxi services. Many taxi drivers because of problems in obtaining the necessary documents for licensing, have to accept “illegal rules of the game” dictated "from above". According to unofficial data, with the tacit consent of the employees of the State Service of road transport, only in Baku operates  a few thousand taxis that provide these services without proper permission.--08B—