Istvan Nagy, head of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, said that Budapest has decided to tighten control to ensure that grain passing from Ukraine through its territory does indeed reach the destination countries and does not remain in the Central markets. Europe. It has been reported TASS.
In his view, such a measure is necessary to protect the interests of European farmers, who suffer as a result of the delivery of Ukrainian agricultural products to local markets at dumped prices.
Nagy stressed that the EC opposes the general reintroduction of customs duties on agricultural products from Ukraine. Therefore, the Hungarian side is taking the initiative, at least temporarily, to restore the tax and quantitative restrictions on the import of Ukrainian grain and oil crops.
The Hungarian minister added that Budapest will continue to exercise control over imports and will pay special attention to transit shipments. This is to ensure that goods in transit actually leave the country.
Former prime ministers of Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia returned With a request to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to intervene in the crisis caused by the influx of grain from Ukraine.