A.GANSUKH SUBMITS DRAFT RESOLUTION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Road and Transportation A.Gansukh Tuesday submitted to the Speaker Z.Enkhbold a parliamentary draft resolution on approving a state policy in auto road transportation sector. The Minister says that many problems face Mongolia’s auto road sector, for example, unregulated transport has been triggering a "black" economy, a number of road accidents is still high due badly prepared drivers, there are no responsibility and technical knowledge on roads. "By having adopted this policy document I want to deal with such problems and to change standards of auto road transportation services", he says. The draft resolution has clauses on a legal environment of auto road transportation, functional and structural reforms for this policy, human resources matters, safety of all transports for passengers and freight, and technical and technological policy. Parliament firstly approved the law on auto road transportation in 1999 to regulate the legal environment for this sector. In 2013, this sphere accounted for 57% of the total freight transportation and 98.7% of passenger transportation. Moreover, the country registered 673 thousand 106 vehicles, of which 431 thousand 938 are cars. In the last five years, Mongolia has imported 50 thousand vehicles.