- The European Commission recommends a new approach for filling out EUR.1/EUR-MED certificates of origin
- This change aims to standardize the information on the country of origin across the European Union
- Customs practices are constantly evolving and it is important to stay updated for smooth import and export processes
- The new recommendation is to enter “European Union” as the country of origin in both line 1 of field 2 and field 4 of the certificates
- It is important to update any locally stored templates accordingly.
Source: awb-international.de
Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.
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