More than six months after North Korea shut its borders to most imports and a year into a nationwide lockdown, the country on Wednesday adopted a new “Law on Disinfection of Imports” to address pandemic-related safety concerns ahead of reopening trade.

The new legislation, which comes after Russian Ambassador Alexander Matsegora said in Feb. that North Korea was constructing large border facilities for disinfecting inbound cargoes, was adopted by the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), the country’s rubber-stamp parliament.

The so-called “Law on Disinfection of Imports” will establish a “system and order of disinfecting imports at border-passing