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The European Commission says it plans extend its road transport agreements with Ukraine and Moldova while updating that with Ukraine.
The original agreements, signed in June 2022 and later extended until end of June 2024 give bilateral transport rights to Ukrainian, Moldovan and EU hauliers in each other's territories. The Commission says that with normal transport routes in the region disrupted or closed due to Russian's war against Ukraine and the ...
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The European Commission is planning to extend four European transport corridors to Ukraine and Moldova, including the ports of Mariupol and Odessa. Transport Commissioner Adina Valean said it was part of Brussels efforts to create ‘Solidarity Lanes’ and help Ukraine continue to export its grain in the face of Russia’s ...
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The European Commission launched four new infringement procedures against the UK for not complying with significant parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol on 22 July but said it had refrained from launching others for over a year in order to look for joint solutions with the UK.
They latest measures are ...
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The European Commission has adopted a decision allowing member states to temporarily waive customs duties and VAT on the third country imports of food, blankets, tents, electric generators and other life-saving equipment destined for Ukrainians affected by the war. The measure will apply retroactively from 24 February and will be ...
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The European Commission adopted a Contingency Plan for Transport on 23 May to strengthen resilience in times of crisis. It draws lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic as well as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, both of which severely affected the transport of goods and people, it said.
The plan proposes a toolbox ...
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The European Commission is to create ‘solidarity lanes’ to help Ukraine export its agricultural produce. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its blockade of Ukrainian ports, thousands of rail wagons and trucks are waiting for clearance. The average current waiting time for wagons is 16 days, but up to 30 ...
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The European Commission has approved an €18 million Irish scheme to support its road haulage sector following Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the State aid Temporary Crisis Framework. It will allow the government to support the road haulage sector affected by fuel price increases as a result of the war. ...
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The European Commission says it could blacklist transport operators that are found to be involved in people smuggling as part of its response to the situation on its border with Belarus. It says that recent events there could not have taken place without the knowing or unknowing contribution of certain ...
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The European Commission launched the first phase of its new import control system (ICS2 to protect against threats posed by illicit goods across the EU's external borders on 15 March. ICS2 will initially focus on postal and express consignments coming to or through the EU by air, before eventually being ...
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The European Commission has set out an EU Single Window Environment for Customs initiative to make it easier for different authorities involved in goods clearance to exchange electronic information submitted by tradersIt aims to enhance cooperation and coordination between different authorities, in order to facilitate automatic verification of non-customs formalities ...
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