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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10904
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) transport

Russia postpones road freight measures by a month

Brussels, 21/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - The Russian authorities have decided to postpone stricter measures for the control of road freight until 14 September (instead of 14 August as initially planned). This therefore goes against the United Nations TIR convention (international carriage of goods by road), according to European Commissioner for Taxation Algirdas Semeta. Semeta made his concerns known in a letter to the head of the Russian customs service, Andrey Belyanov, at the end of July...