EU – Baltic States, Latvia, Legislation, Security, Transport

The said 16 cameras are manufactured by Netherlands-registered Gatso, which has been working in the industry for several dozen years, providing services in more than 60 countries around the world. Reck will take the cameras to Riga and ensure maintenance of the devices for five years. The amount of the contract is EUR 896,786, without value added tax.

Reck's offer was selected as it offered the lowest price.

The procurement will consist of two parts: procurement of 16 stationary speed cameras with a Doppler radar, and procurement of four speed cameras with a laser scanner.

The Road Traffic Safety Directorate emphasizes that setting up stationary speed cameras is only one way to improve safety on the roads. It is also important that infrastructure upgrades continue, and portable speed cameras are also necessary. The public needs to be better educated about traffic safety as well.

The directorate believes that speed cameras have to ensure safety and compliance with the traffic rules on the roads, not earn money for the camera owners. For this reason, the directorate will place information signs and speed limit signs on roads before setting up the speed cameras.

It is important that the fines collected from violations detected by these speed cameras go into the state budget and are used to improve the road infrastructure and traffic safety, the Road Traffic Safety Directorate indicates.

Reck deals with maintenance of electric installations, power lines, electric devices, and electrical transformers.

In 2013, the company turned over EUR 15,180,636, and earned EUR 969,566. Reck fully belongs to Armands Garkans and Viesturs Kagis, according to information provided by Firmas.lv.