Ambassador of Kazakhstan: Kazakhstani experts consult with Armenian  colleagues on the mechanism for re- exporting cars

ArmInfo.Representatives of Kazakhstan ministries and departments (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Customs Service, State Revenue Committee) conduct working  consultations with their Armenian counterparts in order to understand  the whole mechanism of re-exporting cars to the territory of the  Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Armenia Timur  Urazayev stated this in an interview with ArmInfo correspondent.   Moreover, the diplomat continued, the matter concerns cars that are  imported into the territory of Kazakhstan, operated there with  Armenian state registration numbers.

According to him, it is also necessary to determine the compliance of  their operation with these license plates with the legislation of the  Republic of Kazakhstan and the regulations of the Eurasian Economic  Union. "Because it was originally known that any car with foreign  license plates should either be registered within a reasonable short  period of time, 10 days if I am not mistaken, and if it is not  registered, it should be exported outside the country after some  time. "It's clear that people may visit their relatives, they can  rest for 10 days . Well, maybe for a month or two, but it's also  necessary to put the vehicle on a temporary register and then take it  out," said Urazayev.  But, when cars are imported and then operated  for years, the diplomat continued, then, firstly, this requires some  regulation, since it becomes a problem to levy fines for violation of  traffic rules, the procedure for investigating traffic accidents  becomes more complicated, since it becomes extremely difficult  identify owners and perpetrators of accidents with unregistered  numbers. Secondly, Kazakhstan and Armenia have different legislative  requirements for the import of cars of different ages. We have it  until about 7 years - not higher, taking into account the use of  Euro4 and 5 standards, in Armenia all these requirements are  significantly lower. And in fact, the use of a car with registration  numbers in violation of Kazakhstani legislation requires some kind of  solution, "said the ambassador of Kazakhstan.  At the same time, he  also noted that old cars of 10-20 years will naturally "die" in  Kazakhstan, which leads to other problems, namely, environmental  issues, expenses from the budget of the Republic of Kazakhstan for  the disposal of this vehicle and a number of other issues. "Of  course, this all needs to be resolved. And we should now think to  what extent this entire supply and use chain was legitimate, and what  additional measures should be taken in order not to repeat the sad  experience of many countries in other contingents that have turned  into landfills,  "Urazayev is convinced.

Clarifying whether it is theoretically possible to create a unified  system in the EAEU space that would allow to levy fines on violators,  regardless of the territory of which state the violator is located  and what his state numbers are, the diplomat noted that the police  and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the EAEU countries should  agree and create some kind of mechanism. "But, I'm not sure that it  is technically possible to create such a system, with differences in  the internal regulations of countries of even one integration union,  to levy a fine in another country, and in general how effective it  is. While, not paid fines mean less funds to the budget. It's not  just a pursuit of fines, these are mandatory fiscal payments, taxes.   Both the state and the citizen should be honest with each other, and  not shirk from mutual obligations, " Urazayev concluded.