Obligation to Report ATS Information

Dear Member,
With reference to the letter sent to our Chamber by TOBB, road transport activities are regulated by the provisions of the Road Transport Regulation of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.

Under the Road Transport Regulation,

·Article 4 defines the Vehicle Tracking System (ATS) as the system by which the course of vehicles after they start travelling will be/can be tracked electronically.
·Paragraph 3 of Article 40 provides that holders of A1, A2, B2 and D2 authorisation certificates are obliged to transmit to the U-ETDS system of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure the plate number and ATS information of the vehicle they will dispatch on a trip, together with the information on the personnel on duty in the vehicle and the information on passengers, no later than 1 hour before the start time of the journey, and the information on passengers who were unable to make or complete the journey no later than 30 minutes after the time at which this occurred, and that, during inspections, if fulfilment of this obligation is confirmed, presentation of the transport contract is not required from the vehicle carrying out the transport,
·Paragraph 4 of Article 40 provides that holders of A1, B1 and D1 authorisation certificates, and holders of D4 authorisation certificates operating on a scheduled basis whose place of departure or arrival is a Metropolitan Municipality, are obliged, in their regular passenger transport activities, to enter/transmit to the U-ETDS system of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure the plate number and ATS information of the vehicle they will dispatch on the trip at the time specified in the approved timetable, together with the information on the personnel on duty in the vehicle and the information on passengers specified in the second and third paragraphs of Article 36 and the first paragraph of Article 38, until the journey starts, and the information on passengers who were unable to make or complete the journey no later than 30 minutes after the time at which this occurred,
·and Provisional Article 2 stipulates that the obligation to report the ATS information determined by paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 40
shall not be applied until 01/01/2024.

Accordingly, within the framework of the legislative provisions stated above, taking into account that the obligation to report ATS information will start as of 01/01/2024, the Procedures and Principles prepared and put into force by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure are sent as an annex to our letter in order to ensure that transport companies do not suffer any grievance.

Annex: Obligation to Report ATS Information

Kind regards,
Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry