OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2009. Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia directed its department to lessen several customs procedure applied by December 15th regulations to Latvian carriers, the FCS press service reports.

The recent discriminative customs control at the border was due to constant law violations allegedly committed by Latvian truckers. The issue have been discussed at the recent meeting of the Transport Group of the Intergovernmental Russo-Latvian commission on economic, scientific and technical, humanitarian and cultural cooperation Riga.

Representatives of the Latvian Association of International Automobile Carriers "Latvijas auto" said they were firm to cooperate with responsible Latvian governmental offices in a bid to prevent further law violations and recover the losses cased by the customs fees evasion. The FCS has positively responded.