TIRANA, April 27 /ATA/ – By I. Vata/ Genoveva Ruiz Calavera, Director for the Western Balkans at the European Commission, said on Monday that the EU scheme for exporting without authorization a reduced list of personal protective equipment in the fight against pandemic comes into force today.
“Good News!!! Western Balkans, Albania, Bosnia& Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia excluded from application!”, she said.
The European Commission has proposed excluding the Western Balkans from the request for export authorization for personal protective equipment during coronavirus pandemic, a decision which came into force today.
The new scheme includes some changes regarding its geographical extent. In addition to previous exemptions, it excludes from applications for authorization the exports to the Western Balkans countries engaged in a process of integration with the European Union as well as Gibraltar and the territories of member states excluded from EU customs union.
The export authorization scheme is part of the measures taken by the EU to address the epidemiological crisis caused by coronavirus disease.
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