The Romanian customs administration is already implementing through the border customs services the new European regulations, according to which the free movement or placing under the customs warehousing regime of the wheat, maize, sunflower and rape originating in Ukraine is allowed in the other EU member states except Bulgaria , Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, reports BTA.

It concerns the implementation of the European Commission regulation of May 2, 2023 on the introduction of preventive measures for certain products coming from Ukraine.

"Therefore, the Romanian Customs Service currently allows only transit customs procedures for these products to other member countries, other than the five mentioned countries, or to third territories," the announcement noted.

For its part, the National Sanitary and Veterinary Service also stated that it will not allow the import into Romania of wheat, corn, sunflower and rape originating in Ukraine.

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These measures apply only to contracts signed after the effective date of the new regulations and apply until June 5, 2023, the two agencies said.

The Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Petre Daia, said yesterday that no trade contract for the four agricultural products - wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower - can be concluded between economic operators from Ukraine and Romania after the European Commission approved emergency measures for the import of these products from Ukraine.

On May 2, the European Commission adopted preventive actions regarding the import of a limited number of products from Ukraine within the framework of the emergency safeguard measure.

These measures are necessary given the extraordinary circumstances of serious logistical difficulties in five EU member states, including Bulgaria.

The measures concern only four agricultural products – wheat, maize, rape and sunflower seeds – originating in Ukraine.

They aim to ease the logistical difficulties associated with these products in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

The measures take effect on May 2 and will last until June 5, 2023.

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