Covid-19 EU: Border management measures to ensure the availability of goods

Member States should preserve the free circulation of all goods. They should guarantee the supply chain of perishable food products and livestock.

To limit the spread of the virus globally, leaders agreed to reinforce the external borders by placing coordinated, temporary restrictions on non-essential travel to the EU for a period of 30 days.

The Commission presented guidelines to Member States on health-related border management measures in the context of the COVID-19 emergency.

Member States should preserve the free circulation of all goods. In particular, they should guarantee the supply chain of essential products such as medicines, medical equipment, essential and perishable food products and livestock. No restriction should be imposed on the circulation of goods in the Single Market, especially (but not limited to) essential, health-related and perishable goods, notably foodstuffs, unless duly justified. Member States should designate priority lanes for freight transport (e.g. via ‘green lanes’) and consider waiving existing weekend bans.

19 March 2020/ EC/ European Union.
https://ec.europa.eu

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