The Parliament of Russia ratified the agreement with Belarus on transport control at the external border of the Union State

March 28, Moscow / Eduard Pivovar - BELTA/. The Russian parliament has completed the ratification of the intergovernmental Belarusian-Russian agreement on carrying out transport control on the external border of the Union State, a BELTA correspondent reports. Today, the document was approved by the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, and on March 16, it was ratified by the State Duma. This agreement was signed in Minsk on October 5, 2010. As noted by First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov, who presented the document, the agreement was ratified by the Belarusian side in June last year. The purpose of the agreement 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 transportations both through the territory of Russia and through the territory of Belarus. The implementation of the document will create conditions for transferring transport control from the Russian-Belarusian border to the external border of the Union State. In addition, a legal framework 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 dimension parameters of a vehicle." It is stipulated that vehicles traveling 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 whose territory the said vehicles are traveling. -0-