UK-Rumanian transport agreement
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• An agreement between the United Kingdom and the Socialist Republic of Rumania to facilitate road transport between the two countries was signed at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on June 12. This agreement is subject to ratification, and will come into force when the necessary Parliamentary processes have been completed.
The agreement provides that certain passenger tourist services and most road haulage services from one country to or through the other shall be freed from the need to be covered by a licence or permit under the carriers' licensing system of the other country.
The passenger transport services to be freed from licensing in both countries are those which, in Great Britain. are already freely admitted or are shortly expected to be so. With respect to road haulage, cabotage will not be permitted and a haulier from one country wishing to operate between the other country and a third country will need to obtain a special authorization from the authorities in the other country.
The agreement also provides that goods vehicles from one country, when temporarily imported into the other for the purpose of the carriage of goods, will not, as hitherto be subject to vehicle taxation in the other country. No exemption from fuel taxes or tolls is provided. Public service vehicles from both countries are already exempted from vehicle taxation, since both countries are parties to the 1956 Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in international passenger transport.