G/MA/QR/N/ALB/1/Add.1  
27 mars 2020 
(20-2513) Page: 1/9 
Comité de l'accès aux marchés  Original:  anglais  
 
  
NOTIFICATION PRÉSENTÉE CONFORMÉMENT À LA DÉCISION SUR  
LES PROCÉDURES DE NOTIFICATION DES RESTRICTIONS  
QUANTITATIVES (G/L/59/REV.1)  
ALBANIE  
Addendum  
La communication ci -après, datée du 21 mars 2020, est distribuée à la demande de la délégation de 
l'Albanie.  
A. Membre notifiant : Albanie  
B. Date de la notification : 17 mars 2 020 
C.  Première notification:  
 Oui 
 Non, dernière notification présentée dans le document (cote du 
document):  G/MA/QR/N/1/ALB/1  
D.  Type de notification : 
 1. Complète (c'est -à-dire notification de toutes les restrictions quantitatives en vigueur)  
 2. Modifications apportées à une notification faite précédemment ( G/MA/QR/N/1/ALB/1 ) 
qui sont de la nature suivante:  
   2.1 Introduction de nouvelles restrictions, telles qu'énumérées dans la section 1  
   2.2 Suppressi on de restrictions, tel qu'indiqué plus bas dans la section G  
   2.3 Modification  d'une  restriction notifiée précédemment, tel qu'indiqué dans la 
 section 1  
 3. Notification inverse de restrictions maintenues par (Membre):  
E. La notification contient de s renseignements pour la période biennale (par 
exemple 2012 -2014) : 2018-2020 et concerne des restrictions en vigueur depuis 
le 8 mars 2 020 
F. La présente notification contient les renseignements1 ci-après:  
 Section 1:  Liste des restrictions quantitatives actuellement en vigueur  
 Section 2:  Renvoi à d'autres notifications adressées à l'OMC et contenant des  
  renseignements sur des restrictions quantitatives actuellement en vigueur,  
  et renseignements additionnels  
 
1 En anglais seulement.  G/MA/QR/N/ALB/1/Add.1  
- 2 - 
  G. Observatio ns générales, y compris description de la suppression de restrictions 
notifiées au titre du point D.2.2 et date à laquelle elles ont cessé d'être 
appliquées  
La mesure relative à l'interdiction d'exporter des médicaments et des dispositifs médicaux est 
adoptée en réponse à la situation d'urgence liée à la COVID -19. Il s'agit d'une mesure temporaire 
destinée à protéger la santé des personnes et à prévenir une situation critique due à une pénurie 
de produits essentiels, ou à remédier à cette situation . 
  
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- 3 - Section 1: List of quantitative restrictions that are currently in force  
 
QR 
No. General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
based on 
HS(2017)  Detailed Product 
Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other 
International 
Commitments  National legal 
basis and entry 
into force   
 Administration, 
modification of 
previously 
notified 
measures, and 
other comments  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
1 Due to the 
COVID -19, 
Government of 
Albania 
restricted the 
exportation of 
drugs and 
medical devices 
temporarily, 
except when 
authorization is 
given by the 
Minister of 
Health and 
Social 
Protection.  CP-X 3002 Human blood; 
animal blood 
prepared for 
therapeutic, 
prophylactic or 
diagnostic uses; 
antisera, other 
blood fractions and 
immunological 
products, whether 
or not modified or 
obtained by means 
of biotech nological 
processes; 
vaccines, toxins, 
cultures of micro -
organisms 
(excluding yeasts) 
and similar 
products  Art. XX:b GATT,  
Art. XI:2(a) GATT  Order of the 
Minister of Health 
and Social 
Protection no.131 
dated 08.03.2020, 
published in the 
Official Gazette 
Year 2020 -Number 
34. This measure will 
be administered by 
the General 
Directory of 
Customs and 
Ministry of Health 
and Social 
Protection  
   3003  Medicaments 
(excluding goods of 
heading 3002, 3005 
or 3006) consisting 
of two or more 
constituents which 
have been mixed      
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- 4 - QR 
No. General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
based on 
HS(2017)  Detailed Product 
Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other 
International 
Commitments  National legal 
basis and entry 
into force   
 Administration, 
modification of 
previously 
notified 
measures, and 
other comments  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
    together for 
therapeutic or 
prophylactic uses, 
not put up in 
measured doses or 
in forms or 
packings for retail 
sale    
   3004 Medicaments 
(excluding goods of 
heading 3002, 3005 
or 3006) consisting 
of mixed or 
unmixed products 
for therapeutic or 
prophylactic uses, 
put up in measured 
doses (including 
those in the form of 
transdermal 
administration 
systems) or in 
forms or packings 
for retail sale      
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- 5 - QR 
No. General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
based on 
HS(2017)  Detailed Product 
Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other 
International 
Commitments  National legal 
basis and entry 
into force   
 Administration, 
modification of 
previously 
notified 
measures, and 
other comments  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
   3005 Wadding, gauze, 
bandages and 
similar articles (for 
example, dressings, 
adhesive plasters, 
poultices), 
impregnated or 
coated with 
pharmaceutical 
substances or put 
up in forms or 
packings for retail 
sale for medical, 
surgical, dental or 
veterinary purposes     
   3006 Pharmaceutical 
goods specified in 
note 4 to this 
chapter     
   4818 Toilet paper and 
similar paper, 
cellulose wadding or 
webs of cellulose 
fibres, of a kind 
used for household 
or sanitary      
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- 6 - QR 
No. General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
based on 
HS(2017)  Detailed Product 
Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other 
International 
Commitments  National legal 
basis and entry 
into force   
 Administration, 
modification of 
previously 
notified 
measures, and 
other comments  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
    purposes, in rolls of 
a width not 
exceeding 36 cm, 
or cut to size or 
shape; 
handkerchiefs, 
cleansing tissues, 
towels, tablecloths, 
serviettes, 
bedsheets and 
similar household, 
sanitary or hospital 
articles, articles of 
apparel and 
clothing 
accessories, of 
paper pulp, paper, 
cellulose wadding or 
webs of cellulose 
fibres     
   6307 Other made -up 
articles, including 
dress patterns     
   9018 Instruments and 
appliances used in 
medical, surgical, 
dental or veterinary 
sciences, including 
scintigraphic      
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- 7 - QR 
No. General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
based on 
HS(2017)  Detailed Product 
Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other 
International 
Commitments  National legal 
basis and entry 
into force   
 Administration, 
modification of 
previously 
notified 
measures, and 
other comments  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
    apparatus, other 
electromedical 
apparatus and 
sight-testing 
instruments     
   9019 Mechano -therapy 
appliances; 
massage 
apparatus; 
psychological 
aptitude testing 
apparatus; ozone 
therapy, oxygen 
therapy, aerosol 
therapy, artificial 
respiration or other 
therapeutic 
respiration 
apparatus     
   9020 Other breathing 
appliances and gas 
masks, excluding 
protective masks 
having neither 
mechanical parts 
nor replaceable 
filters      
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- 8 - QR 
No. General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
based on 
HS(2017)  Detailed Product 
Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other 
International 
Commitments  National legal 
basis and entry 
into force   
 Administration, 
modification of 
previously 
notified 
measures, and 
other comments  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
   9021 Orthopaedic 
appliances, 
including crutches, 
surgical belts and 
trusses; splints and 
other fracture 
appliances; artificial 
parts of the body; 
hearing aids and 
other appliances 
which are worn or 
carried, or 
implanted in the 
body, to 
compensate for a 
defect or disability     
   9022 Apparatus based on 
the use of X -rays or 
of alpha, beta or 
gamma radiation, 
whether or not for 
medical, surgical, 
dental or veterinary 
uses, including 
radiography or 
radiotherapy 
apparatus, X -ray 
tubes and other X -
ray generators,      
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- 9 - QR 
No. General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
based on 
HS(2017)  Detailed Product 
Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other 
International 
Commitments  National legal 
basis and entry 
into force   
 Administration, 
modification of 
previously 
notified 
measures, and 
other comments  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
    high tension 
generators, control 
panels and desks, 
screens, 
examination or 
treatment tables, 
chairs and the like     
 
 
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