The Government of Armenia has approved a new state border crossing regulation for cargo vehicles, which aims to centralize queue management and increase the capacity of checkpoints.

According to the decision made at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on July 23, the exit of trucks through the “Bagratashen” and “Agarak” checkpoints will be carried out exclusively after entering and leaving special parking lots. The maximum fee for the electronic queuing service has been legally fixed at AMD 5,000.

Meanwhile, the entire flow management process will be entrusted to the State Revenue Committee (SRC).

The new procedure envisages a number of exceptions in order to ensure uninterrupted logistics of vital cargo. Vehicles transporting perishable goods, as well as trucks of authorized economic operators and those with a law-abiding tax payer certificate, have received the right to emergency service. In addition, in order to eliminate the consequences of natural or man-made disasters, vehicles carrying humanitarian and technical cargo will cross the state border, bypassing the parking lots altogether.

As the SRC president explained Eduard Hakobyan, new parking infrastructures are subject to strict technical standards.

The specialized zones must be located within a radius of no more than 20 km from the checkpoint, have an asphalted area of ​​at least 3000 square meters and be equipped with modern video surveillance systems that will be immediately integrated into the unified digital network of the department.

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