TIRANA, Feb 2 /ATA/ – The Ministry of Finance and Economy said Thursday that the bilateral screening meeting between the European Union and Albania on the chapter I of the EU accession negotiations, namely the free movement of goods, was held on January 2 and February 2 in Brussels.
The free movement of goods is one of the four fundamental freedoms in the European Union. The principle of free movement of goods means that products should flow freely from one part of the Union to another.
The experts team of the Ministry of Finance and Economy and other institutions involved in this chapter made respective presentations on what has been accomplished to date.
During the meeting, experts said that Albanian government will launch initiatives to lift limitations on imports in a bid to further facilitate trading and exchanges, further opening up Albania to the European markets.
According to the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the harmonized European legislation on products, which needs to be transposed, represents the largest part of the acquis. Furthermore, the country should build sufficient administrative capacity to notify trade restrictions and implement horizontal and procedural measures in areas such as standardization, conformity assessment, accreditation, and metrology and market surveillance.
With the EU accession talks now opened, Albania has ushered in a crucial. The Ministry of Finance and Economy should negotiate on 13 out a total of 33 chapters, and co-negotiate two other chapters, as well as the Economic Criterion as part of the accession negotiations.
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