The Open Balkans' Speeder Turns up

For such a thing, the rapid “sector for trucks carrying products from the participating countries of the Balkan Open Initiative has opened up.

“This means that practically it will not complicate the procedures of exporting agricultural and food products within the regulations of the three Balkan signatory countries opened”, says Gorann Gjakovic, adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture in Serbia.

In a proposal for “Jutarnji dnevnik”, Gjakovic says the free trade of food products between the signatory states means primarily for those exporting agricultural and food products, because over 600 companies export them to the territory of northern Macedonia and Albania.

The most simple truck, today when the truck leaves for northern Macedonia, we will send a notice that such a truck will arrive at their place, will go directly to where it should go, our paper check will be made, and our certificate will be known in northern Macedonia and Albania, and vice versa”, explains the agriculture minister's adviser.

“We will trust each other and will constantly become controls, as have been done so far, but this will not prevent exports, but we want to accelerate the circulation of products”, Goran Gjakovic said.

The competent inspection services agreed to mutually recognise documentation accompanying goods, broadcast RTS.

The documentation is still standard, the phytosanitary and veterinarian certificates, provided the trucks do not wait at the limit to obtain samples at the export site.

“The trucks will go extra to the customs terminal or distribution centre and there only the documentation will be checked. Macedonian or Albanian officials will have our findings and no longer need to work on them. To avoid misuse of sample control. The work will continue. at the expense of the state”, Gjakovic says.

He adds that so far there have been cases that trucks stand at the border where goods have been destroyed. This will no longer be “, he says.

“Only routine control of the driver's passport is possible and everything else goes completely without problems”.