Press Release: Commission proposes increased market access for products from Western Balkans

On 7.6.00 the Commission decided to propose an extension of the existing EC autonomous trade preferences for Western Balkan countries. Trade promotion and co-operation is one of the core elements in the EU policy towards the Western Balkans, which is embodied both within the EU Stabilisation and Association Process and the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe. It is proposed to abolish remaining tariff ceilings for certain industrial products from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and to improve market access for agricultural products, to extend these preferences to Kosovo, to grant tariff quotas for Montenegrin aluminium products and to streamline all trade preferences in a single new regulation