The transport bill must be adopted by December to transpose EU regulations into national legislation.
Present at the conference, National Union of Romanian Transporters secretary general Radu Dinescu said the union proposed a series of amendments to the law, such as extending the validity of transport licenses from five to ten years, introducing criminal records for drivers and creating a single transport checkup body.
Transport checkups are currently carried out by three different authorities – the national roads authority CNADNR, the Romanian Traffic Authority (ARR), and the Romanian Auto Registry (RAR).
Employers in the field proposed that transport firms be classified into risk categories. They demand the implementation of basic criteria to be considered when setting transport tariffs.