Trade Facilitation Committee assists the Serbian Government in streamlining procedures and controls over movement of goods across national borders, focusing on maximization of trade through reducing associated costs and assuring transparent and uniform application of regulations, while safeguarding legitimate regulatory objectives.
Backbone of Trade Facilitation Committee efforts is the establishment and maintenance of a constructive dialogue with all relevant state authorities and institutions involved in import and export controls, and the improvement of trade-supportive regulatory framework and institutional mechanisms that enable cross-border movement of goods.
Trade Facilitation Committee assists the Serbian Government in streamlining procedures and controls over movement of goods across national borders, focusing on maximization of trade through reducing associated costs and assuring transparent and uniform application of regulations, while safeguarding legitimate regulatory objectives.
Backbone of Trade Facilitation Committee efforts is the establishment and maintenance of a constructive dialogue with all relevant state authorities and institutions involved in import and export controls, and the improvement of trade-supportive regulatory framework and institutional mechanisms that enable cross-border movement of goods.
Implementation of the National single window, decreasing the time needed for import procedures for agricultural, food and non-food products, enabling electronic communication of business entities with Customs Administration.
Establishment of effective risk analysis within sanitary inspection, as well as other pre-market inspections, in order to ease the import for companies with good business practices, goods harmonized with regulatory requirements and developed internal safety and quality control;
Elimination of delays in issuing registration for new drugs, renewal of registration and approval of promotional materials, in line with regulatory deadlines. Acceptance of EU certificates of conformity, as well as laboratory analysis done in compliance with EU procedures;
Monitoring the implementation of the trade agreements signed within the Open Balkan Initiative, as well as potential expansion of the list of goods and regulatory measures which should be additionally simplified to achieve free movement of goods.
