“We constantly find some nuances that are not provided for in the regulatory documents in Latvia. One of them is how to participate in road traffic with a vehicle that has not yet been formally put into operation.
When the manufacturer has issued a certificate of operation for the machine, only then may the machine be registered.
And when she is registered, she can participate in road traffic. In our case, we need to do this public road testing before we can issue a certificate.
Well, here we are – we find ourselves in such a situation that we don’t really get to the testing and the army won’t get to the machines. Such a vicious circle occurs – the car cannot be registered because the certificate has not been issued, the certificate cannot be obtained because the car has not been tested”, explains Uģis Romanovs, chairman of the board of “Patria Latvia”.
The Directorate of Road Traffic Safety learned about this problem at the beginning of this year. It turned out that the army vehicle register, which monitors and services the mechanized equipment of the military, cannot assign the VIN code required in this procedure, or what is popularly called the “chassis” number.
No other institution, except CSDD, has developed such specific procedures for assigning these identification numbers. And after meeting with the representatives of the manufacturers here in person, this issue was discussed.
And CSDD created an opportunity to assign these identification numbers to the relevant vehicles, says Mārtiņš Mālmeisters, Deputy Head of the Communication Department of CSDD.
The response of the Ministry of Defense “Nothing personal”:
The defense industry has received a request from SIA “Defence Partnership Latvia” to find a solution to the issue of testing “Patria 6×6” vehicles before handing them over to the National Armed Forces. The solution is necessary because the current regulatory framework of Latvia does not determine issues related to the full-cycle production of serial vehicles.
The representatives of the defense industry have met with SIA “Defence Partnership Latvia” and will advance the necessary amendments to the regulatory acts.
The head of Patria diplomatically does not criticize the Ministry of Defense and hopes that the problems with car registration will be resolved. How quickly the armored vehicles will be received by the Latvian Army and the National Guard depends on this.
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