Coronavirus Commission presents practical guidance to ensure continuous flow of goods across EU via green lanes
INTERNATIONAL NEWS24 March 2020
Today, the Commission issued new practical advice on how to implement its Guidelines for border
management, in order to keep freight moving across the EU during the current pandemic. To ensure
that EU-wide supply chains continue to operate, Member States are requested to designate, without
delay, all the relevant internal border-crossing points on the trans-European transport network (TEN-T)
as ‘green lane' border crossings. The green lane border crossings should be open to all freight vehicles,
whatever goods they are carrying. Crossing the border, including any checks and health screening,
should not take more than 15 minutes.