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Bulgaria’s Cabinet approves changes to Road Traffic Act

Thu, Dec 24 2009 08:36 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria’s Cabinet approves changes to Road Traffic Act

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Bulgaria’s Cabinet has approved amendments to the Road Traffic Act aimed against fraudulent issuing of driving licences and roadworthy certificates.
 
Transport Minister Aleksander Tsvetkov told journalists that every year in Bulgaria, about 15 000 people get driving licences without sitting the required written examination or even without putting in the regulation number of hours with a driving instructor.
 
Motor vehicles get roadworthy certificates without having undergone proper tests, in some cases with inspectors accepting money to issue the certificate without even having seen the vehicle.
 
Penalties for illegally issuing driving licences or roadworthy certificates will include fines of up to 5000 leva and withdrawal of licences to conduct such tests.
 
Written examinations will be recorded on camera, and web cameras will be installed for use during driving licence practical examinations.
 
Records of roadworthy tests will have to be kept in an electronic register, to be available for investigation if required.   
 
Tsvetkov said that introducing the use of electronic surveillance of driving tests and vehicle inspections would mean that there would be no need to increase the fees for driving tests and roadworthy checkups.
 
He was confident that the new measures, which will be tabled in Parliament for approval, would substantially reduce abuses, Tsvetkov said.
 
 

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Anonymous peter Fri, Dec 25 2009 17:57 CET
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All cars not passing the technical test will be destroyed with all the other cars not suitable to be on public roads? Or people need to wait again for 50 years for them to be removed from public roads? Maybe this is why there was the last action to remove old wrecks from Sofian streets, to make place for the new wrecks maybe?

Anonymous Cosmos Thu, Dec 24 2009 15:06 CET
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Well done about time.


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