EU, Ukraine Extend Road Transport Agreement
The EU and Ukraine on June 20 extended their current road transport agreement, which seeks to help Ukraine "access world markets by facilitating transit through EU countries."
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The deal will run until June 30, 2025, and will be renewed for another six months "unless one of the parties disagrees and has solid and clear evidence that there is a major disturbance of its road transport market" or that the agreement's goals "are clearly no longer being met," the European Commission announced.
The deal also will now require transport operators to "carry documents proving authorisation for international carriage and compliance with the Agreement" and require documents certifying that "unladen operations are directly linked to a transit or bilateral operation," the commission said. A "safeguard clause" could suspend agreement in certain regions "if a road transport market in this area experiences major disturbances attributable to the Agreement."