{"id":127980,"date":"2021-10-22T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/piu-libero-il-trasporto-merci-stradale-fra-svizzera-e-russia\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:12:26","slug":"freer-road-freight-transport-between-switzerland-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/freer-road-freight-transport-between-switzerland-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Freer road freight transport between Switzerland and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Freer road freight transport between Switzerland and Russia<\/h1>\n<h3><em>On October 15, Bern and Moscow repealed the permit requirement, which had existed since 2015, for bilateral and transit deliveries<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>In the future, Swiss and Russian road transport companies will not need a permit to transport goods or to ensure their transit between the two countries.<br \/>\nRepresentatives of the Swiss Confederation and the Russian Federation have signed an adaptation of the bilateral agreement to this effect.<br \/>\nInternational road traffic between Switzerland and Russia is governed by a bilateral agreement in force since February 2015, under which both bilateral transport and transit are subject to authorization.<br \/>\nThe number of annual permits is limited. In recent years, demand from freight carriers has exceeded this limit.<br \/>\nFor this reason, the two countries have agreed to relax the regulation and to supplement the agreement with a protocol: the permit requirement for bilateral and transit transport is abolished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/good-offices-and-economic-agreements-in-the-russia-switzerland-summit\/\"><strong>Good offices and economic agreements at the Russia-Switzerland summit<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/switzerlands-bilateral-meetings-with-the-usa-and-russia\/\"><strong>Bilateral meetings of Switzerland with the USA and Russia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91547\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91548\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Russia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bandiera della Federazione Russa\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Russia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Russia-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Russia.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of the Russian Federation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85251\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86131\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Flag_of_Switzerland-300x300.png\" alt=\"Bandiera della Confederazione Svizzera\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Flag_of_Switzerland-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Flag_of_Switzerland-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Flag_of_Switzerland.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of the Swiss Confederation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Only stops: triangular traffic, coach traffic and cabotage<\/h4>\n<p>Neither triangular traffic nor coach travel (road passenger traffic) will be liberalised. The new regulations were signed in Moscow on 15 October 2021 by representatives of the Swiss Confederation and the Russian Federation and will enter into force as soon as the respective national procedures have been completed (ratification).<br \/>\nFor many years, Switzerland has been committed to permit-free market access in cross-border road freight traffic.<br \/>\nThe land transport agreement with the EU states already contains provisions to this effect, while with many other European and Near Eastern states permits are waived on the basis of agreements similar to the one signed with Russia.<br \/>\nCabotage, i.e. the transport of goods by foreign companies between two destinations within Switzerland, remains prohibited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/there-is-a-customs-memorandum-of-understanding-between-russia-and-switzerland\/\"><strong>There is a customs memorandum of understanding between Russia and Switzerland<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/belarus-significant-tightening-of-swiss-sanctions\/\"><strong>Belarus: considerable tightening of Swiss sanctions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105476\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105477 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/E4BwOy6UYAAwHWS-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin, presidente della Federazione Russa, e Guy Parmelin, presidente della Confederazione Elvetica, a colloquio a Ginevra\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/E4BwOy6UYAAwHWS-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/E4BwOy6UYAAwHWS-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/E4BwOy6UYAAwHWS-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/E4BwOy6UYAAwHWS-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/E4BwOy6UYAAwHWS.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and Guy Parmelin, President of the Swiss Confederation, in conversation in Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 15, Bern and Moscow repealed the permit requirement, which had existed since 2015, for bilateral and in-transit deliveries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,260,210,305,735,257],"tags":[807,1039,1042,739,887],"class_list":["post-127980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-highlights","category-magazine","category-politics","category-russia-en","category-switzerland","tag-auto","tag-customs","tag-diplomacy","tag-russia-en","tag-switzerland-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127982,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127980\/revisions\/127982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}