📋 Tender Overview
On Tuesday, September 30, the government supported changes to the Ministry of Transport (MoU) in the Law of Road Use (ALN) to reduce the negative impact on the environment, roads and improve the efficiency of the transport system. In Latvia, the road use toll is applied to heavy trucks with a maximum full mass of above 3 tonnes moving through the countrys main and regional roads. ALN revenue is diverted to the maintenance and development of national roads. Raising the rates will ensure a fairer participation in the cost of infrastructure costs, the higher the vehicles load on the road, the greater the payment should be. At the same time, high rates will also serve as a tool for the introduction of greener and more efficient logistics, promoting the reorientation of combined types of transport or the use of railway where this is possible. Changes in the law also provide that the unemidities will be exempt from the payment of the ALN. This approach will serve as an additional incentive for carriers to invest in more environmentally friendly technologies and will speed up the transition to a climatical fleet according to the European Green Course. Along with increasing the ALN rates, there have been certain changes to the list of roads on which the ALN will apply. This will eliminate the possibility of avoiding the Aln payment by deliberately selecting the routes currently outside the fee. ALN will also be attributed to all sections of the motorway leading to the border crossing of Terehova, Grebneva and Paternieki, ensuring that the fee is legally relevant to the entire distance to the national border. This will allow the State Border Guard to fully and legally control the payment of the ALN in these external border crossing points. This approach will improve the efficiency of the fee collection and ensure equal treatment of all road users, regardless of the route choices. The amendments to the law are introduced - raising the rates and expanding the road coverage - both the European Commissions approach on the principle of the cars user fee and the recommendations of the OECD on fair road maintenance financing. The changes introduced are aligned with the Latvian Sustainable Development Strategy by 2030 and the National Energy and Climate Plan.
