OAK concerned about barriers to transport businesses

In a media communiqué, OAK reports she has accepted a complaint from her business member RONEX, which has been fined $100,000 or 800 euros for truck tahhographs, even though Albanian authorities are informed that Kosovo and Kosovo transport operators cannot afford digital cards for professional drivers because our country is not part of the world transport organisation TIR.

OAK commemorates that with the trust protocol Kosovo businesses are free of such demand in Albania and several countries in the region.

Furthermore, the Oda of Afarism of Kosovo says this is not the last case where companies are fined by Albanian authorities carrying goods from the Durres Port and another barrier is also given to the fact that only 200 litres of derivatives should be available in truck tanks in the moment they enter Albania.

Businesses claim that no international and regional practice prevents it from having derivatives in the truck tank with the amount the manufacturer allows, which ranges from 400 to 800 liters.

In this case, trucks from Kosovo do not dare to have more than 200 liters of derivatives in their tanks, lest they be fined and confiscated from driver's license-viser.

The OAK considers the barriers being made to Kosovo's transport businesses are making it difficult to operate, and in this case it calls on Albanian authorities to take into account preliminary agreements and Kosovo-Albania agreements so that they will not remain on paper alone but find practical application so that unnecessary barriers are being created to businesses are being exceeded.

In this regard OAK has been addressed with a letter to the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Tirana.