At European level, extra-EU flows of parcels under 150 euros increased from 1 billion to 4 billion in 2004, says Nazare.

In Romania, these flows increased from 3-4,000 parcels per day, to 225,000 parcels per day today.

„There are a lot of Romanian entrepreneurs, we are talking about almost 40,000 Romanian entrepreneurs, who sell online and who have been deeply affected by this increase in parcels from non-EU areas. There are multiple negative effects of this invasion of products from non-EU areas. There are environmental effects, there are logistical effects, because the logistics of moving so many parcels at such a high increase is much more complicated. We are also talking about risks regarding counterfeiting and verification of these parcels, because the possibilities of verifying such a large number of parcels are much smaller and the state’s resources in this regard...