EconomyPolitics The EC has accredited transitional commerce preparations with Ukraine following the top of visa-free commerce. Monday, Might 26, 2025

The European Fee has adopted a listing of transitional measures for Ukrainian exports to the EU, which can take impact after June 5 when autonomous commerce preferences for Ukraine will now not be in impact, mentioned EC spokesman Balazs Ujvari. The transitional preparations will stay in place so long as essential to regulate the Deep and Complete Free Commerce Space (DCFTA), which has been in impact between Ukraine and the EU since 2016. Ujvari famous that the present autonomous commerce measures wanted to be renewed yearly.

“As an alternative, we’re in search of extra long-term options. Negotiations on this are ongoing – easy methods to revise and modernize this settlement, make it extra fashionable,” he added.

Subsequently, beginning in June the EU will reinstate quotas for Ukrainian agricultural imports, which had been eradicated following the Russian invasion in 2022 with a view to present assist for the Ukrainian agricultural sector. The quotas in impact till the top of 2025 will quantity to 7/12 of the same old annual volumes. Nonetheless, the Ministry of Agrarian Coverage identified that each Kyiv and Brussels have the political will to agree on balanced commerce circumstances by the top of July.