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The amendments and addenda to the investment contract that entered the state registry on 1 March 2012 will be introduced by signing additional agreement No. 4. The Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry has been authorized to sign the document on behalf of Belarus.

Executive order No. 660 comes into force as of the publication date.

BelTA earlier quoted representatives of the Transport and Communications Ministry as saying that information about what roads are to become toll roads in Belarus is specified by the investment contract signed with the investor, which will create the digital toll road system BelToll, in other words, with Kapsch TrafficCom AG. The source said that there is no doubt that additional factors will emerge in the course of the project's implementation and will have to be reflected by the investment contract.

BelTA reported earlier that the Transport and Communications Ministry intends to add more motorways to the list of toll roads in 2015. In particular, there are plans to introduce toll collection after a part of the M5 Zhlobin-Gomel motorway is reconstructed as well as for four-lane parts of the R23 Minsk-Mikashevichi motorway and the R21 Vitebsk-the Russian border motorway. As a result, the total length of Belarusian toll roads is supposed to increase by more than 300km in 2015.

As much as 1,968km of Belarusian roads are supposed to become toll roads by 2020.

BelToll went commercial on 1 August 2013. It is a digital system designed to collect road toll by using a specialized short-range radio technology. As of 1 August 2014 the total length of toll roads in Belarus stood at 1,189km.

The company IOOO Kapsch Telematic Services is in charge of operating the BelToll system in Belarus and discharging all the necessary functions the system’s operation involves. The Transport Inspection of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry is in charge of auditing the collection of road toll on toll roads.