Approved by the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Moldova of December 9, 1999 9/12

Rules of motor transportations of loads

I. General provisions

1. These rules are developed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications according to Art. 2 and Art. 54 of the Code of road transport (The organic law N116-XIV of 29.07.98, M.O. of N90-91, 1998 g, the Art. 58).

2. These rules determine procedure for the organization of motor transportations of loads in the territory of the Republic of Moldova.

The international motor transportations of loads are performed according to international treaties and agreements and intergovernmental agreements, one of the parties of which is the Republic of Moldova, and also according to its domestic legislation.

3. Transportation of the separate types having special specifics is regulated according to the rules developed in accordance with the established procedure.

4. Determinations:

"carrier agent" - any physical person or legal entity transporting on vehicles of passengers, the baggages and the loads of business entities and citizens or which are carrying out or organizing on the initiative or under the agreement with the consignor (consignee) of transaction, provided by the forwarding agreement;

"carrier" - any physical person or legal entity performing carriage of goods by own vehicles (the actual or valid carrier) or any physical person or legal entity which is carrying out carriage of goods by means of assignment on itself obligations of carrier on cargo delivery to the receiver (contractual carrier);

"consignor" - physical person or legal entity, being the owner or the manager of load;

"consignee" - the physical person or legal entity having the right to the transported load;

"the transported loads" - any inventory items shown by the consignor to transportation from the moment of their acceptance to transportation by the carrier agent until delivery to the consignee;

"commodity load" - the load having material and commodity value;

"non-commodity load" - the load which does not have material and commodity value;

"small sendings" - transportations of small consignments of the various nomenclature.

II. Organization of carriages of goods

5. Carrier agents will organize the activities independently proceeding from demand for transport services.

6. Carrier agents accept for shipment loads based on transportation agreements of the loads signed between consignors or consignees.

7. According to the transportation agreement of loads the carrier agent shall accept at the scheduled time, and the consignor (consignee) to show to transportation loads in the caused amount.

8. The carrier agent can sign the transportation agreement of loads with any economic agents or citizens who are not consignors or consignees. In this case economic agents or citizens are customers, have the rights and undertake the obligations and responsibility provided by these rules for consignors and consignees.

9. In case of relations of the carrier agents with consignors (consignees) based on the agreement, consignors (consignees) submit to the carrier agent of the shipping request of loads in writing.

10. In need of execution of urgent task the carrier agent can accept the request orally or by phone with the subsequent obligatory execution of this request in ten-day time in writing.

11. Changes and amendments shall be made only in writing.

12. The commitment form on carriage of goods is attached and has advisory nature (Appendix 1).

III. Transportation agreement of loads

13. According to the transportation agreement of loads the carrier agent shall deliver the load entrusted to it by the consignor in destination and issue it to the consignee specified in commodity-transport delivery note, and the consignor or other economic agent or the citizen confirmed with the transportation agreement shall pay the established payment for cargo hauling.

14. The transportation agreement of loads shall contain the following conditions:

- names and addresses of the parties;

- subject of the agreement;

- obligations of carrier;

- customer's obligations;

- calculations for transportation;

- responsibility of the parties.

15. The transportation agreement of loads by agreement of the parties can join also other conditions.

16. Disputes and disagreements between the carrier agent who transports, and the consignor, arisen in case of agreement performance are regulated by the current legislation of the Republic of Moldova and conditions of the specific transportation agreement of loads.

17. The agreement is attached and has advisory nature (Appendix 2).

IV. Regulations of Admission of loads to transportation

18. Carrier agents accept loads for shipment on the basis of transportation agreements of loads.

They provide first priority of transportation of contractual loads, except as specified natural disasters, catastrophic crashes, accidents and other emergency situations.

19. Types and the number of the cars necessary for implementation of carriages of goods, specifics of these loads, and also route of transportation make a reservation in the transportation agreement of loads.

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