Ministry officials will discuss the problem with domestic hauliers.
If Slovenia fails to cancel the contentious decree, Croatia will impose the same measure against Slovene road hauliers, which means that Slovenes will have to transport cargo from Croatia to third countries under the same conditions that are now applied to Croatian hauliers in Slovenia, the Ministry said on Monday.
In that case, Slovenes will be able to transport cargo from Croatia only to third countries that are not European Union members. To transport cargo from Croatia to the EU, they will have to have CEMT licences, the Ministry explained.
Slovenia's ban on the transport of cargo by Croatian hauliers from Slovenia to third countries went into force last Friday, 4 February, without previous announcement, rendering the situation for Croatian hauliers more difficult.
Ljubljana said the reason for the ban was the implementation of the European Commission's decree on customs regulations No. 245/93.
The Croatian ministry said that Croatian hauliers had already suffered great damage last week because Slovenes did not even allow Croatian trucks with CEMT licences to transport cargo from Slovenia to third countries.
In 2005, Croatia and Slovenia exchanged 6,500 licences for the transport of cargo to third countries, the Croatian ministry said.