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An important role in the Latvian transport system is played by motor roads. SJSC "Latvian State roads" is performed by the SJSC "Latvian State roads" under the authority of which there are 20,309 km of roads including 8,066 km of black surfacing roads. The most significant transport corridor traversing Latvia in North-South direction is "Via Baltica". The "Via Baltica" is the first transport corridor of Latvia, also known as the motor road E67 providing links between such European cities as Helsinki – Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw/ E 77 (Riga – Kaliningrad – Gdansk).
The title of the most important transport corridor traversing Latvia in West-East direction could be given to the motor road of European importance E22. It starts in Great Britain and runs into the central region of Russia in its way traversing Holyhead, Manchester, Leeds, Grimsby (Great Britain), Amsterdam, Groningen, (Netherlands), Hamburg, Luebeck, Rostock, Sasnitz (Germany), Trelleborg, Helsingborg, Norcheping (Sweden), and continuing its course from Ventspils to Riga and finally reaching Russia – Moscow, Kazan, Elabug, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Tumen, Ishim.
With becoming a member state of the European Union, opportunities of Latvian road hauliers to use the advantages of a free road transport service market of the European Union, have broadened. From now on, in order to transport cargo between EU member states bilateral licences are no longer needed. Transportation to countries which are not EU member states will have to be executed in accordance with respective bilateral agreements.
Latvia has successfully met the EU requirements in road transportation and introduced in the legislation main conditions regarding access to the market of passenger and cargo transportation, driving and resting regimens of professional drivers, technical parameters of road transport vehicles and traffic security conditions, organisation of dangerous cargo road transportation, control in road transportation and other requirements related to road transportation.
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