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’The tender dossier ‘Support for the development of a CEFTA framework for recognition of electronic signatures’ with reference CEFTA 2024-02 is published on the CEFTA website”. Deadline: 20 August 2024 at 04.00 pm.

CEFTA and Common Regional Market Instruments for the accelerated integration of the Western Balkans into the EU Single Market

CEFTA SEED+ Continues Supporting Trade Through Digitalization

Trade

The CEFTA Parties have committed to establishing a regional economic area on the basis of EU compliance and with the objective to decrease the cost of trade and production by eliminating market access barriers.

Trade in goods and services between the CEFTA economies should be free of tariffs, quotas and other non-tariff barriers.

Trade in Goods
Trade in Services
Cross-cutting trade areas
Dispute Settlement

Trade in Goods

CEFTA activities under its trade facilitation priority aim to boost trade in general and specifically to eliminate barriers to trade. In combination with CEFTA related activities to increase investments flows, this will encourage better integration into the world economy.

Trade in Services

The effective implementation of the Additional Protocol 6 on Trade in Services is seen as an essential factor for promoting trade and investment in the region and a key driver for stimulating economic growth in economies of CEFTA.

Cross-cutting trade areas

The expansion of the activities in different areas covered by the CEFTA Agreement provide for the development of new cooperation areas that are covering both goods and services.

Dispute Settlement

Dispute settlement rules were established initially in the CEFTA 2006. As the regional economic integration depended, leading to increased trade flows and increased relations between the Parties, the initial dispute settlement mechanism proved to be ineffective for the existing realities and required serious reform due to limited recourse by the Parties to the resolve disputes.

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May 16, 2024

CEFTA and Common Regional Market Instruments for the accelerated integration of the Western Balkans into the EU Single Market

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April 27, 2024

CEFTA and WB6 CIF Unite to Empower Businesses’ Voices

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April 12, 2024

CEFTA SEED+ Continues Supporting Trade Through Digitalization

Brussels — CEFTA Secretariat and European Commission (EC) signed a 4-million-euro worth Grant Contract for SEED+ Action “Support to Systematic Exchange of Electronic Data (SEED+)

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