Brussels, 19/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 12 July, the WTO Council for Trade in Goods approved the request for exemption submitted by the European Communities over the granting of a preferential trade regime to the Western Balkans. Forwarded to the WTO General Council for adoption, the Council from Trade in Goods draft decision notes the “exceptional situation” in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It adds that the...