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The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation plans to introduce the penalty system for failure to comply with requirements concerning GLONASS positioning system implementation on transport vehicles. According to the words of the Prime-Minister Dmitry Medvedev, if the carriers dealing with transportation of passengers or dangerous (oversized) cargoes failed to equip their cars with the GLONASS system, they will be charged from 30 to 50 thousand rubles of penalty. According to the data of the federal system operator “NIS GLONASS”, there are about 900 000 buses, 11 000 trolleybuses and 10 000 trams, which are to be equipped with navigation system, The main aim of GLONASS implementation on public transport is to increase safety of passenger transportations at the expense of speed control and fast response in urgent cases. Besides the municipalities will have an opportunity to check whether the carriers observe the licenses they’ve got, and it is indispensably for passenger transportations management and city traffic control. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has registered an order determining the procedure of GLONASS implementation on transport from the 21st of February this year. From the 1st of January 2013 all the transport vehicles for transporting heavy-weight or bulky cargoes and buses are to be equipped with the GLONASS positioning systems. This order also relates to taxis, which are to be equipped from the 1st of January 2014. According to the federal target program “Maintenance, development and use of the GLONASS system” for a period of 2012-2020, financing of this program will amount to 346.59 billion rubles.
The Transport Ministry of Russia Has published a draft order concerning approval of requirements to informative and navigational systems, hardware and software complexes and navigation equipment for tracking transport vehicles of commercial transportations of passengers and dangerous cargos according to GLONASS and GLONASS/GPS signals. “All transport vehicles dealing with commercial transportations of passengers and dangerous cargos will have to use equipment satisfying the requirements developed for them” – said the leading expert of the GLONASS system development and implementation office of the Department for Development Programs of the Transport Ministry Evgeny Andreev. According to his words, navigational and informational systems in particular have to reach 99.67% of readiness index and average mean time to failure about 15 000 hours. They have to restore to the operational condition within one hour, the guaranteed service life has to reach 2 years and the operating life period – 6 years. The representative of the Transport Ministry mentioned, that the document has to give a detailed account of requirements to a subscriber telematic terminal, which has to be implemented to transport vehicles transporting dangerous cargoes. “It has to detect and to record not less than 20 000 events in a successive order”, said Evgeny Andreev. According to his words, a subscriber telematic terminal is to be implemented in the driver’s cabin to be visible by the driver; it has to have alarm button, detectors of passenger traffic and fuel level, and it has to provide voice communication of the driver with dispatchers. Besides, transport vehicles of M2 and M3 class there has to be implemented with front and back cameras, cameras of driver’s control and cabin’s review, and cameras of boarding areas control if needed.
At Friday the State Duma has approved at the third reading a law concerning introducing in Russia of a utilization fee for new and used cars. The deputies have introduced relevant amendments to the law “Concerning production and consumption wastes” and to the Article 51 of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation. According to the new law, the utilization fee is supposed to be paid from the 1st of August for each transport vehicle, both imported to Russia and manufactured on its territory. Exception applies to private cars of refugees and emigrants upon their repatriation, to cars of diplomatic officials and members of their families, rare autos (manufactured over 30 years ago), as well as motor cars being imported from the territories of the Customs Union member-states and transport vehicles sent to the customs procedure in a free zone of the Kaliningrad Special Economic Zone until the 1st of April 2016. According to the opinion of one of the law draftsmen, the first vice-chairman of the State Duma Committee for Industry Vladimir Gutenev, the vehicle certificate of title will be issued only after paying the utilization fee or it will be issued for the cars out of the obligatory list. “Utilization fees are supposed to be charged upon producing new or previously used cars, the utilization duty will be fully applied to car manufacturers and importers, what means it will be built into cost of a car. Only in cases of single transport vehicles import this fee is to be paid by an individual, stated Gutenev. Meanwhile there will be introduced a mechanism of transport vehicles utilization, according to which there will be realized a principle of “manufacturer liability” for the production. Particular fee rates will be fixed by the government of the Russian Federation. According to preliminary estimates of the Ministry for Industry and Trade and the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the base rate for a new passenger car can be about 20-45 thousand rubles, and 150-400 thousand rubles for a cargo car according to its category.
The Heads of 33 subjects of the Russian Federation have signed a quadruple agreement concerning interaction in the sphere of navigation activity with members of the non-profit organization “Assistance to navigation technologies use and development”, with the Transport Ministry and the Regional Development Ministry of the Russian Federation. “We are going to create regional navigation and information systems, develop solutions for geodesic and cartographic support, implement system of urgent response in event of accidents “ERA-GLONASS”, open pilot zones and dispatch centers in the subjects of Russia”, - stated the president of the non-profit organization “Assistance to navigation technologies use and development” Aleksandra Gurko. All the subjects of Russia participating in the agreement are included to the transport corridors North-South, East-West, development of which should be accompanied with global modernization of the transport infrastructure. The main directions of interaction between the agreement members’ are use of unified approaches in creating systems of automobile transport monitoring and control on the basis of GLONASS or GLONASS/GPS technologies. “It provides for possibility for integration of regional centers of GLONASS satellite monitoring with the automobile transport control system by the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision, as well as monitoring of automobiles carrying passengers from 8 persons and more, school buses, emergency cars, transport vehicles carrying dangerous, heavy-weight and heavy-bulk cargos, and automobile transport of the municipal or urban engineering”, - according to the data of the non-profit organization. For the moment, the agreements are already signed with the regions of Moscow, Voronezh, Ryazan, Vladimir, Tver, Smolensk, Tambov, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Novgorod, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Rostov, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Kemerovo, Kursk, and Amur; with the territories of Zabaikalye, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk and Primorsk; with the republics of Bashkortostan, Yakutia, Tatarstan, Kalmykia, Chuvashia and Buryatia, as well as with the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Starting from the 1st of July 2012 the civil aviation of Russia introduces new requirements concerning equipping of aerial vehicles with the on-board Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS). Such requirements are provided by the Federal Aviation Rules (FAR) “Flights’ preparation and execution within the air area of the Russian Federation”, they are approved by the order of the Transport Ministry of Russia from 31.07.2009 ¹ 128 (FAR -128) (clauses 4.20, 5.76 è 5.78) and relate aerial vehicles of civil aviation. In case aerial vehicles would not be equipped with the given systems, they will be prevented from operation from the 1st of July 2012. According to the data of interregional territorial directorates for air transport of the Federal Air Transport Agency, currently there are 1104 aerial vehicles that do not require TCAS system equipping (according to the requirements of the FAR-128), while there are 1411 aerial vehicles of domestic manufacture (533 plains and 878 helicopters) which has got the Certificate of Airworthiness. There are 307 plains of domestic manufacture which are obliged to be equipped with the TCAS system, and 283 of them are equipped with this system. There are 533 plains of domestic manufacture which are obliged to be equipped with the GPWS system, and 401 of them are equipped with this system. The modern domestic vehicles such as Antonov An-140, Antonov An-148, RRJ-95B, Tupolev Tu-204, Tupolev Tu-214, Ilyushin Il-96 are fully equipped with the TCAS and GPWS systems. According to the clause 5.76 of the FAR-128, the helicopters such as Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-171, Mil Mi-26 and Kamow Ka-32 have to be equipped with GPWS systems only in case of commercial air transport service according to the instrument flight rules (IFR). Only 103 Mil Mi-8 helicopters of 803 owing the Certificate of Airworthiness are equipped with the GPWS system. The helicopters of Mil Mi-171 (16 units), Mil Mi-26 (30 units) and Kamow Ka-32 (29 units) kind are not equipped with the GPWS system (flights will be executed according to the visual flight rules (VFR) or on nonprofit basis).
The new order of pilotage licensing on the Northern Sea Route provides for reducing terms of application submission – from 4 months to 15 days (according to current regulations, the term is 4 months and 1 month for an urgent application), as was stated by the press-service of the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency. The declaration is being filled in execution of transit voyage on the Northern Sea Route without calling at Russian marine ports. The document is signed by the captain of the vessel and by the head of the shipping company and is send in electronic form for on approval by the administration of the Northern Sea Route. In this case the vessel is exempted from port examinations on compliance with construction and equipment requirements. The right for access into port water areas will be issued on the ground of the declaration. To define correspondence to the stated requirements there must be an examination of vessels following the Northern Sea Route from Inland Water Ways and from the ports of the Russian Federation before they come to the Northern Sea Route. Vessels’ examination is executed by sea ports captains according to the Article 79 of the Merchant Marine Code, to the order of the Transport Minister #120 from the 20th of August 2009 and to the Requirements to construction, equipment and supply of a vessel following the Northern Sea Route.
Starting from the 1st of July the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Management and Natural Disasters Response cancels technical examination of small-sized vessels and simplifies the procedure of their certification of driver's-license, as was stated by the Head of the Administration Vladimir Puchkov. «Taking into account the recent amendments, we cancel everything relating technical licensing of small-scale vessels. It will simplify work and activity of those people who own and use small-scale vessels», - said Puchkov.
It would become more difficult to get the highest safety assessment from the Euro NCAP committee without special AEB system. Starting from 2014 the organization obliges to equip cars with the emergency brake system. The Euro NCAP authoritative committee for car safety assessment has done the research of the AEB emergency brake system. According to the working results, the experts concluded that equipment of a car with the given system permits reducing the quantity of road traffic accidents by 27%. Systems of independent emergency brakeage help avoiding a crash or reduce its consequences by alerting the driver. They reinforce efforts in the braking system or brake the car by themselves. These systems usually include radars, lidars and camera recorders. However now the system is missing in 79% of models that are being sold in the Old World, 66% of car manufacturers don’t equip their cars with it. The situation is much better at the Swedish Volvo that equips 58% of cars with the emergency automatic brake system. Only 42% of the Lexus cars possess the emergency brake system. The AEB system is met more rarely in the cars of Mercedes-Benz (29%), Lexus (10%), Mazda (9%), Toyota (1%) è Volkswagen (1%). According to the data of the British magazine Auto Express, starting from the October 2012 insurers will give a discount for those car owners whose cars are equipped with the emergency brake system.
Prepared by the Transport Ministry specification projects for data communications protocols in navigation and informative systems have been approved by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media and by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. As was stated by the press-service of the Transport Ministry, specification protocols have went through airing, and now manufacturing companies are working over its hardware implementation. While developing specifications of the unified protocols, there were used results of works issued on order of the Transport Ministry and the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision. These works relate to creation of a remote control and supervision system in the sphere of safety assuring while transporting dangerous cargos, establishment of a supervisory control center for intercity passenger transportations, systems of informative support and safety assuring, regional and zonal dispatch navigational systems for assuring safe functioning of multipurpose ground transport vehicles. According to the report, there also have been considered the experience accumulated by Russian and foreign companies, specifications of the NGTP 2.0, ACP, GATS, GTS protocols within public reach and private solutions of telematic operators. Implementation of the unified protocols into practice is executed in frameworks of a created with the participation of the Transport Ministry logistic transport center (LTC) in Sochi. In the motor transport monitoring system of the LTC there are integrated navigational systems of 37 telematic operators, 156 transport enterprises and 1647 transport vehicles. The following companies have declared their readiness to implement the unified protocols in 2012: “Russian navigational technologies” OJSC, “Omnicomm Technologies” Ltd., “Suntel-Navigation” CJSC, “Microline” OJSC, “Mircom” CJSC, “M2M-telematics” Ltd. and other companies.
Passengers of international bus routes will be registered in the centralized databases of private information. It relates to those who take regular buses that run through the territories of two or more regions and arrive to the North Caucasus or the South of Russia, as well as to passengers of the Central region. All of them will buy tickets on showing passports and the information about them will be kept in the database. The precise list of those auto transportation routes where an automated centralized personal database is being formed are stated in the order of the Transport Ministry. Creation of automated centralized databases is one of the measures to increase passengers’ safety. According to the current Complex programme of passengers’ transport safety assuring, fundamental federal means are being assigned for transport objects safety (in this context it relates to bus stations) by means of modern necessary technical equipment. It permits to register passengers’ data and to check them with different law enforcement bases without delays. This all will help to make bus transportations more safety. As was stated by the Transport Ministry, the order obliging carriers to start forming passengers’ databases will come into force within 90 days after legitimating the Procedure of forming and running centralized personal databases which are still being developed.
It was stated by the General Manager of the federal network operator “Navigation and informative systems” (“NIS-GLONASS”) Aleksandr Gurko. Progressive implementation of the ERA-GLONASS system is going to begin. Starting from 2014 cargo transport has to be equipped with the system and from 2016 - all the new cars in Russia”. Implementation of this project will help to monitor dangerous cargos and passenger transportations, to accelerate emergency reaction of life saving services. Speaking about the main aims, Gurko stated that “till the end of this year it’s necessary to unify technical requirements that will operate from 2015”. Moreover he stated that it would be rational to use ERA-GLONASS infrastructure for other projects”. “Sooner or later we’ll have to implement 3-4 onboard systems: ERA-GLONASS, payment terminal for road charges and other systems, supposes the General Manager. – That’s why we need to unify onboard systems. According to him, currently systems use to copy each other. “We initiate for maximum use of the ERA-GLONASS infrastructure, - stated he. – The system is being designed liberal so there could be an opportunity of rendering different additional services. The similar project called eCall is being developed for the moment in Europe. As was stated by Gurko, the main task for this year is to harmonize the Russian and the European systems. “Russian system has several distinctive features. We use GLONASS system, SMS-channel, as a reserve data communication channel, we develop different terminal variations”. “In 2013 the system is to be introduced into service throughout Russia”, - stated Gurko. Within a year or two we have to establish 8 informative and operational centers, three centers have been already established”. This February a pilot programme has been started in the Kursk region.
More than 2.8 thousand buses (of 6.7 thousands) for children transportation don’t meet the technical requirements, concluded inspectors of the Federal Authority for Road Traffic Safety (FARTS). In relation to these violations the policemen issued more than 300 orders and brought to responsibility 86 buses’ owners. According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), there were 7.5 thousand drivers to pass this examination, among which 80 failed and were suspended from duty. As stated by the representatives of the MIA, all the children transportations in the period of their rest in summer camps will be accompanied by the cars of the FARTS. It’s planned to use more than 1.8 thousand automobiles for that.
As was stated by the Transport Ministry of the Russian Federation, the Head of the Agency Maksim Sokolov has approved administrative regulations of licensing of the three railroad activity types and has directed the documents to the Ministry of Justice for the state registration. These documents are connected with transportation of passengers, dangerous cargos, as well as with loading and unloading activity in relation to the latter. The new regulations determine the order of documents receipt for license issuance and control rules over its observation. They include an exhaustive list of documents which are required for license acquisition, as well as of those which may be submitted by an applicant of his own free will. The new rules describe application forms for license issuance, operating procedure for license reissuance, responsibility of officials for their actions and decisions, and procedure for officials’ decision appealing. The licenses have no expiration date and are issued for the fee of 2600 rubles. The administrative regulations which were registered by the Ministry of Justice on 13th of December 2007 are expired. They were dedicated to licensing of passenger and luggage railroad transportations. Licenses are issued by the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision, which includes authorized for this activity Directorate of state railway supervision. Those applicants who are willing to carry out passenger transportations must grant data about the railway rolling stock with indication of its numbers, information about the assigned crew and its qualification. The companies who will work with dangerous cargos have to state a class of the dangerous cargo in the application form. It’s possible to submit documents for license in written or electronic form - on the official web-site of the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision www.rostransnadzor.gov.ru, by e-mail head@rostransnadzor.ru or on the Unified portal for state services gosuslugi.ru. If an applicant submits documents in electronic form, it’s not necessary to duplicate them in written form. Control over execution of the administrative regulations is realized in form of scheduled and unscheduled inspections.
The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted a Resolution MSC.336(90) concerning measures for passenger vessels’ safety improving. It was stated by the press-service of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, which has participated in the 90th organization’s session in London. The Resolution prescribes that states should advise to shipping companies, which have passenger vessels in operation, to carry out quickly and with maximum efficiency an analysis of the existing safety measures, taking into account the recommended list of temporary measures cited in the approved by the Committee Directive MSC.1/Circ.1446. The Committee decreed that further work over the passenger vessels’ safety level improving will be one of the top-priority tasks for the IMO, according to the agreed long-term plan of actions. The next 91st session of the MSC is to take place on 26-30th of November 2012.
Bunkering services, which are being rendered while sea vessels’ port mooring, are exempted from paying the value-added tax (VAT). It has been a topic of the letter by the Ministry of Finance dated 18th of May ¹03-07-07/52. The Tax Code of Russia provides VAT tax exemption for the works and services including services for repair and maintenance of sea vessels, inland-waterways and mixed navigation vessels while port mooring (all kinds of port charges, services of port vessels), for piloting, as well as for services of classification and examination of vessels. By virtue of the All-Russia Classifier of Economic Activities OK 029-2007 and the All-Russia Classifier of Economic Activities OK 029-2001, supply (ship chandler) services including vessels bunkering are attributed to the maintenance services while port mooring.
May 2, 2012
At the second reading the State Duma adopted a bill concerning insurance of transport operators’ liability for passengers’ damage. Life and health of a citizen in Russia was evaluated as 2 million rubles. Such compensation must be paid to the injured by the transport operator. As originally framed, there were all the transport modes in the document, but eventually subway was eliminated. Subway insurance requires considerable expenses from the budget, because subway is a huge transport operator. Thus subway was only obliged to pay compensations prescribed by the law in a case of incidents. If this requirement is not fulfilled or passengers meet bureaucratic obstacles in money receiving, we will have to switch it to the obligatory insurance as well, explained Natalia Burykina - the Chairman of the State Duma Committee for financial market. The only mode of transport not mentioned in the law is taxi. We have to legalize taxi at first, because the majority of it is still operating at the grey market, - said Natalia Burykina. The relevant amendments are already introduced.
May 2, 2012
Informational support system of control and supervision over inland water transport (IWT) in Russia may be brought into service by July 1st 2012. This proposal was put on April 28 in the framework of testing results review meeting by the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (FMRTA) under the chairmanship of the Transport Minister of Russia – Igor Levitin. The meeting was participated by the Deputy Transport Ministers of Russia Viktor Olersky and Andrey Nedosekov, the Acting Head of the FMRTA Sergey Gorelik, the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision Andrey Guzenko, executives of the FSUE “Morsvyazsputnik”, FAE “Russian river register” (RRR), FTI “Rostransmodernizaciya”, FSUE “ZaschitaInfoTrans”, specialists of the Transport Ministry and of the FMRTA. The Executive Director of the FSUE “Morsvyazsputnik” Andrey Kuropyatnikov gave a presentation of information system developments for control and supervision activity support over IWT. He stated that the Transport Ministry has created a cluster of interconnected informational systems (IS) for control and supervision activity support over IWT as an element of the automated control system over transportation industry. This cluster includes: informational system of State port control (SPC) over IWT; automated informational support system for control and supervision activity of the FMRTA; informational support system of the RRR. Databases are developed on the basis of the existent branch guides. Elements of electronic systems of data input, storage, processing and display are interconnected and correspond to verification schemes used by the FMRTA and SPC over IWT. There has been developed interrelatedness between the automated informational support system for control and supervision activity of the FMRTA and informational system of SPC over IWT. Also there has been designed a software to display verification objects (vessels, shipping companies, hydraulic engineering installations) which have uncorrected remarks, directions or mismatches according to the verification results (inspections). For each vessel there has been evaluated a target factor which depends on number of indicators at the moment of reference to a vessel. Informational support system for control and supervision activity over IWT permits to get information in real-time mode about the current status of a vessel, documents aboard, licensees and authorizations. The verification results are introduced to the database of informational systems and they get available for all control and supervision bodies on the whole territory of Russia. The FMRTA, the SPC and the RRR During April 2012 the informational systems have passed a trial period in the Directorates of the State Marine and River Inspectorate of the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision and in the State Basin Authority for water ways and shipping. IS of the SPC over IWT is presented in the framework of the program “Additional vocational training of state port control inspectors over IWT of the Russian Federation” under Saint-Petersburg State University for Waterway Communications. A special training seminar is planned to be conducted by the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision. At the present moment there has been permitted an access for more than 400 jobs for inspectors of the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision.
April 25, 2012
Passengers of the Russian airports are allowed not to take off their shoes while passing inspection. These regulations are issued on 25th April in order of the Transport Ministry about amendments in “Rules of pre-flight and post-flight inspection”. Passengers will be released from a necessity to take off their shoes if “the heels are less than 2.5 centimeters high and the sole is less than 1.0 centimeter thick”, as stated in the order of the Transport Ministry of Russia. Passengers also will not have to take off their belts “if it is 4.0 centimeters wide and less than 0.5 centimeters thick”. These amendments come into force in May. In the autumn of 2012 it is planned to cancel volume restrictions of liquid cabin baggage. For that purpose airports need to acquire special remote equipment for liquid content specifying. As was stated by the Meanwhile it was stated by members of the Transport Ministry that passengers still will have to check in a luggage alcohol-containing or flammable liquids like vodka of any volume.
February 24, 2012
GLONASS equipment for transport vehicles Passenger vehicles (except for motor cars) and trucks with dangerous goods are obliged to be equipped with the satellite system GLONASS and GLONASS/GPS from January 1st 2013, as was stated by the Transport Ministry. The new order about satellite equipment is registered in the Justice Ministry on February 21st. It comes into force in relation to transport vehicles of N class (trucks – red.) for dangerous goods transportation and transport vehicles of M2, M3 classes (buses) – from January 1st 2013; in relation to transport vehicles of M1 class (taxi) – from January 1st 2014, as was stated by the Transport Ministry. Until that time each passenger vehicle need to be equipped with systems of positioning and data transmitting to the automatic control and supervision center of the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision.
IATA supports the revision of EU rules on quotas on air emissions The International Air Transport Association (IATA) does not exclude that in the near future an agreement between the EU and other countries in the world may be signed about quotas trading on greenhouse gas emissions, which currently violates the rights of airlines, said Perry Flint, IATA spokesman. The European Union in early 2009, decided to include in 2012 airlines in the EU ETS, the European emissions trading system for greenhouse gases. On January 1, 2012 all airlines flying to Europe will have to obtain quotas for greenhouse gas emissions in proportion to its volume of traffic, as well as to conduct monitoring, reporting and control of emissions. The European Union, the United States, China, Russia and other countries, as well as IATA criticizes the decision. As Flint noted, the world's airlines are not against emissions trading, as such, but believe that such measures must be implemented globally, not just within the EU. "Regional regulatory measures, such as the European trading scheme for greenhouse gas emissions (ETS), disbalance the market. In addition, carriers in Europe are already paying huge taxes to compensate for damage to their environment," - said Flint. However, he did not excluded that the unilateral measures taken by the EU, may lead to trade war. According to Flint, the Chinese government has sent a directive to Chinese airlines not to participate in the ETS, and the U.S. Congress is now considering a bill that, in fact, prohibits U.S. airlines to operate in this system. "Airlines faced with a choice: whether to follow the laws of their country or the rules of ETS, which the European Union wants to implement. In addition, there is a risk that European carriers will face retaliation, because if other airlines will be forced to participate in the ETS, their governments can take retaliate against European carriers, "- said Flint. In addition, IATA proposes to move the negotiations on this issue at the site of ICAO, which is part of the UN. Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia, Valery Okulov, said earlier that the Russian side continues to offer at least postpone the introduction of quotas to the development of a global solution at ICAO. At the end of January in Brussels, a meeting of the Russian delegation, headed by Okulov with the leadership of DG for action on climate change and DG of Mobility and Transport of the European Commission took place. At the meeting the inclusion of civil aviation in the existing EU emissions trading system for greenhouse gases in 2012 was discussed. According to the Russian delegation, such a move is forcing airlines to buy emission quotas for flights to the EU, and the question for a global mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from civil aviation is within the competence of ICAO.
JSC "RZD" in 2012-2014 will equip baggage compartments of "Federal Passenger Company" (FPC, "daughter", Russian Railways), dealing with long-distance transportation, with inspection X-ray facilities. The carrier will hold an open competition for the supply, installation, commissioning of such complexes. Organizer of the auction is center of tender organization of the carrier. The contract price will be up to 151.04 million rubles.
Traffic police can re-start fining for 500-800 rubles and shoot numbers for the lack of state technical inspection certificate for drivers. This follows from the introduction in the State Duma a draft of the law, which was developed with the participation of insurance companies. The bill also proposes to delete the norm according to which the liability insurance OSAGO policy can not be issued to the driver, if the validity of state technical inspection certificate is less than six months. Another innovation concerns the increasing of punishment for an accident. If the guilty driver drove a car accident, without passing the, he can be fined for 3-3.5 thousand rubles - for causing bodily harm and deny rights to drive a car for up to two years - for causing the injury of moderate severity. The developers of the draft law also allow drivers to offer an agreement signed with the operator instead of the state technical inspection certificate when they produce OSAGO. Thus, the motorist can easily get OSAGO and pass the state technical inspection at a convenient time. In addition, the deputies want to introduce the opportunity to get a policy without inspection for a period of 15 days. | ||||||||
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Regions of the Russian Federation started implementing GLONASS systems
Russian Railways will equip baggage compartments of FPC with Inspection X-ray installations