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Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus Tshitsherina st 21 220029 Minsk Republic of Belarus Our 02.02.2023 nr 8-4/2023/692-1 Return of the Belarusian road transport permits for the occasional transport of passengers At the request of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus the Transport Inspectorate of the Republic of Belarus forwarded to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia through diplomatic channels 150 road transport permits for the occasional transport of passengers by buses for the year 2023. These road transport permits would be for such occasional transport operations of passengers by buses which, according to Article 5 of the Agreement on international road transport signed between Estonia and Belarus on 11.06.1996 in Minsk, are not exempted from the requirement for a road transport permit. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia received the above-mentioned road transport permits in January 2023, but we have to inform you that our competent ministries have not agreed on the exchange of these road transport permits for the year 2023. Therefore, we return these road transport permits to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus and inform on the decision of the Ministry of Economy and Communications of the Republic of Estonia not to exchange the mentioned road transport permits between Estonia and Belarus for the year 2023. In case a Belarusian passenger transport company plans to carry out the occasional transport of passengers to Estonia, from Estonia or through Estonia by bus and such occasional transport operation of passengers is not exempted from the requirement for a road transport permit according to Article 5 of the Agreement on international road transport concluded between Estonia and Belarus, then the competent authority of Belarus should submit the request to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia. All the mentioned requests are processed by the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications on a case-by-case basis. Yours sincerely Indrek Gailan Director of transport development and investments department in the duties of the deputy secretary general for transport Attachment: 150 Belarusian road transport permits for the occasional transport of passengers Suur-Ameerika 1 / 10122 Tallinn / 625 6342 / [email protected] / www.mkm.ee Registrikood 70003158