Lima, August 17, 2009.- Land transportation authorities from Ecuador and Peru reached important joint decisions that will help facilitate the free circulation of passengers and goods authorized for international road transportation at border crossings between the two countries.  

The agreements were adopted at the Third Meeting of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian Working Committee on International Road Transportation, held at the headquarters of the CAN General Secretariat in Lima on August 13 and 14, with the participation of delegations from both countries under the chairmanship of Fernando Amador, Under-Secretary for Road and Railroad Transportation of Ecuador’s Ministry of Transportation and Public Works, and José Luis Castañeda Neyra, Director General of Land Transportation of the Peru’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications. 

During the Meeting, the two delegations approved a single compendium of procedures and requirements for granting transportation permits and on the registration, in the other country’s administrative registry, of authorized vehicles and registered cargo units, as stipulated in Andean legal regulations.  “The requirements and procedures listed are the only ones competent national authorities will demand,” they pointed out. 

They also agreed to establish the procedure for application of the automatic extension of the original permit and of the Certificate of Legal Competence, as well as of the Supplementary Permit to Provide Services and the Permit to Provide Services, in order to avoid interrupting international road transportation services.    

Furthermore, it was agreed to form a Technical Subcommittee to draft a proposed procedure for vehicle authorization using larger weights and measurements than those established in Decision 491, and to hold training events on Community customs traffic and customs control for international road transportation operators.   

Ecuador agreed to grant license plates to its cargo units up until December 31, 2009.  Within this period, those units will be registered in Peru’s administrative transportation registry for use in bilateral international land transportation. 

Binational Working Committees constitute working levels or mechanisms between Andean Community Member Countries whose end purpose is to promote the active participation of public, private and academic actors, among others, in the analysis and recommendation of proposed solutions to problems that interfere with the international road transportation of passengers and goods.