Vehicles, trailers to be registered based on new regulation in Moldova

Chisinau, 3 August /MOLDPRES/ - The vehicles and trailers will be registered based on a new regulation, due to be published in the Official Journal of Moldova (Monitorul Oficial) on 4 August.
Under the document, the owners of vehicles are obliged to demand registration ahead of starting driving their cars. At the same time, if any data put down in the registration certificate is changed, the owner of this certificate is obliged to demand that the issuing authority issues a new document of this kind.   
The vehicles imported in Moldova are registered on the names of the private persons or legal entities, on whose names the customs documents were issued. This restriction is not extended on the vehicles imported by economic agents dealing with the sale of vehicles and on the vehicles imported by private people and transmitted to the wives, children and parents or the enterprises the founders of which they are.  
The permanent registration or the temporary registration is made based on the following documents: applicant’s application; the document showing the applicant’s title to the vehicle or trailer; the applicant’s identity card; the proof of carrying out of the periodical technical inspection and the proof of the payment of the road tax; copy of the document of compulsory civil responsibility insurance for damages caused by vehicles, in its validity term; the customs document which shows the definitive or temporary import for temporary registration, in the case of vehicles and  trailers imported in Moldova; the proof of payment of tariffs set by the competent authority for the services provided, the proxy, if needed; a report on identifying the vehicles and a proof of additional compulsory payment, provided for by the law of the republican fund and the local funds of social support of residents.     
The document also sees the criteria of classification of vehicles, types of vehicles and of coachwork, which will be included in the technical passport.   
(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor A. Raileanu)