The first ever two-day meeting on Road Committee of Transit Transport Coordination Council (TTCC) of ECO member countries will be held here in the second week of September, sources in the communication ministry said on Wednesday.
Sources said six ECO member states out of 10 which include Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan have confirmed their participation in the meeting of road committee, which will be held here on September 17-18.
The participants will deliberate upon the approval of the terms of reference (ToR) of the road committee of the TTCC, consideration of existing customs duties, taxes and other levies and charges, prescription of road transit routes, consideration of measures to expedite clearance of transit traffic, mechanism to grant multiple entry and transit visa to drivers and transport operators will be on the agenda of the meeting sent by the ECO Secretariat, Tehran.
Other issues to be discussed are: harmonisation and facilitation of issuance of road permits, implementation of technical requirement of vehicles, simplification and harmonisation of documents and procedures used in transit transport will also be discussed in the meeting, they added.
The meeting will also consider accession to and implementation of the relevant international conventions, which include Customs Convention on International Transport of Goods under the cover of TIR Convention 1975, Convention on Road Traffic 1968, Convention of Road Signs and Signals 1968 and Convention on contract for International Carriage of Goods by Road on May 19, 1956 and the protocol to this convention, (Geneva July 1978) will also be discussed in the meeting, the sources observed.
Sources said the road committee, legal committee, railway committee and insurance committee were constituted following the signing of Transit Trade Framework Agreement (TTFA) among governments of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at Almaty on May 19, 1998.
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