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The document discusses UNECE's work facilitating safe and sustainable border crossings. It outlines UNECE's approach and various transport agreements. Key points include the importance of infrastructure, procedures, and cooperation to efficient border transit. Specific conventions like TIR and Harmonization aim to reduce border delays and costs.

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D1 UNECE Transport

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UNECE – centre for Transport Agreements

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 1


UNECE Division on Sustainable Transport

Inland transport that is:

• safe,
• high quality, affordable and
accessible to all,
• ecologically sound,
• environmentally viable and
• a positive contribution to
national and international
sustainable development

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 2


UNECE’s 3600 approach to Border crossing
facilitation :

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 3


Border crossing facilitation :

On some major routes, 57 % of transport time is lost at border crossings.

•Long waiting times at borders result in major human suffering for drivers blocked in
queues for hours/days
•harmful impact on the environment
•Border waiting times also cost billions annually => increasing the cost of goods for
the end consumer, not to mention lost business opportunities.

Border crossing facilitation is:


•Key to international trade, exports and imports
•Essential for growth and competiveness
•A driver of regional integration

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 4


Crossing borders requires:

•Appropriate and resilient infrastructure


•Reliable and harmonized international
legal framework
•Harmonized or at least aligned procedures
(e.g. customs)
•International cooperation and exchange of
best practices

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 5


Albania is a Contracting Party to 30 UN
transport Conventions:
Infrastructure  European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries (AGR), 1975
networks  European Agreement on Main International Railway Lines (AGC), 1985
 European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations (AGTC), 1991
Road traffic and  Convention on Road Traffic, 1949
road safety  Convention on Road Traffic, 1968
 Convention on Road Signs and Signals, 1968
 European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Traffic (1968), 1971
 European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals (1968), 1971
 European Agreement on the Application of Article 23 of the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic concerning the Dimensions and Weights of Vehicles
Permitted to Travel on Certain Roads of the Contracting Parties, 1950
 European Agreement on Road Markings, 1957
 Protocol on Road Markings, additional to the European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals, 1973

Vehicles  Agreement concerning the Adoption of Uniform Technical Prescriptions for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and /or be
used on Wheeled Vehicles and the Conditions for Reciprocal Recognition of Approvals Granted on the Basis of these Prescriptions, 1958
 Agreement concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions for Periodical Technical Inspections of Wheeled Vehicles and the Reciprocal Recognition
of Such Inspections, 1997

Other Legal  European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles engaged in International Road Transport (AETR), of 1 July 1970
Instruments  Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles for Private use in International Traffic, 1956
Related to Road  Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in International Passenger Transport, 1956
Transport  Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), 1956
 Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), 1978

Border crossing  Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, 1954


facilitation  Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the importation of tourist publicity documents and
material, 1954
 Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles, June 1954
 Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention), 1975
 International Convention to Facilitate the Crossing of Frontiers for Passengers and Baggage carried by Rail, 1952
 International Convention to Facilitate the Crossing of Frontiers for Goods Carried by Rail, 1952
 European Convention on Customs Treatment of Pallets Used in International Transport, 1960
 International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods, 1982

Dangerous goods  European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), of 30 September 1957
and special cargo  Protocol amending article 1 (a), article 14 (1) and article 14 (3) (b) of the European Agreement of 30 September 1957 concerning the International
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), 1993
 Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be Used for such Carriage (ATP), 1970
Slide 6
The TIR Convention, 1975
• Global United Nations Convention;
• Establishes and regulates the only existing and
operational global customs transit system;
• Administered by the established Treaty bodies
in Geneva under UNECE auspices.

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 7


Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 8
The Harmonization Convention, 1982

- International Convention
on the Harmonization of
Frontier Controls of Goods
- 56 Contracting Parties
- Objective: To facilitate
cross border transport of
goods through nationally
coordinated, internationally
harmonized, shorter,
reduced formalities and
controls of goods at borders

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 9


OSCE-UNECE Handbook of Best Practices at Border
Crossings – A Trade and Transport Facilitation Perspective

• Reference material and more than 120 best practice


examples at border crossings.

• It covers available legal instruments, inter-agency


and international co-operation, balancing security
and facilitation measures, processing of freight, risk
management, design of border crossing points, use of
ICT technologies, human resource management and
benchmarking.

• Available
at:http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/bcf/
publications/OSCE-UNECE_Handbook.pdf

• Available in the Albanian language

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 10


Road Safety

 Just past the mid-point of the United Nations


Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020)
 Launched, in 2015, the Road Safety
Performance reviews (UNDA-funded, UNECE
in collaboration with UNECLAC and UNESCAP)
 First RS Performance Review of Albania
underway
 Will result in recommendations on critical
issues of improving road safety in Albania
 2 year project

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 11


Recommendations
Intergovernmental and Inter-institutional cooperation in order to:
• Support sustainable transport through policy dialogue, analysis,
capacity building and legal framework;
• Encourage the development of internationally harmonized and
integrated transport policies;
• Assist in developing national and urban sustainable mobility
strategies;
• Implement the UN Transport Conventions and other legal
instruments - in particular those related to facilitation of
international transport, road safety, transport of dangerous
goods, vehicle safety and environmental performance;
• Support connectivity through harmonized infrastructure
development.

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 12


UNECE/TIR SECRETARIAT

8-14, Avenue de Paix


CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 917 23 92
Email address: [email protected]

Geneva, 26 May 2016 Slide 13

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