Brussels, 06/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - Last week, the European Commission announced that the new customs transit scheme would take effect on 1 July 2001, in the Fifteen countries of the EU and seven countries members of the "Common Transit" Convention of 20 May 1987 (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia).
Based on the recommendations of the European Parliament's Committee of Enquiry on Community transit, this new scheme has as main goal to reduce the...