{"id":2833,"date":"2025-09-03T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valga.ee\/?page_id=2833"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:58:53","slug":"taksoteenuse-pakkujale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valga.ee\/en\/juhtimine-ja-majandus\/majandus\/ettevotlus\/taksoteenuse-pakkujale\/","title":{"rendered":"To a taxi service provider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taxi transport in Valga municipality is regulated by the Public Transport Act, the Road Transport Act, the establishment of professional qualification requirements for drivers, the rules on professional training, the curricula for training courses and the form of the training certificate, the requirements concerning the technical condition and equipment of motor vehicles and their trailers, the conditions and procedures for medical examinations of drivers and applicants for driving licences, and the forms of medical certificates and medical requirements.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Public Transport Act, there are two ways of providing taxi services:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. traditional taxi services (regular taxis), where the fare is calculated by means of a taximeter and the taxi must be equipped with the legal taxi signs, which are a taximeter, printer, placard, fare sign and trademark on the taxi;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. platform-based taxi services (platform taxis), which require that the ordering of the taxi and the calculation of the fare must be done via an information society service and that the vehicle does not need to have any other mandatory taxi identifiers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    For both types of taxi, the taxi transport operator, i.e. the driver, must hold a taxi licence, the driver a service card and the vehicle a vehicle registration card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The documents issued by Valga Municipality certifying the right to taxi transport are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n