The European Commission (EC) will this week introduce changes to EU trade legislation that will allow countries bordering Ukraine to impose restrictions on imports of agricultural products from there, European Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dombrovskis said. The newspaper quotes his words Financial Times.
“We will look at how we can provide additional guarantees to Poland and other EU member states, and one way to do this is to offer country-specific guarantees,” Dombrovskis said.
According to the European Commissioner, the EC’s proposals will most likely “include measures to protect individual countries from the consequences of duty-free imports of agricultural products from Ukraine”.
19 January Polish Ministry of Agricultural Development reminded meIt was stated that the ban on grain imports from Ukraine is still in effect. At the same time, the media contains information about the flow of Ukrainian grain into the country.
15 September European Union It is cancelled There was previously an embargo on grain exports from Ukraine to Europe, but border countries did not agree with this decision. According to the authorities of Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, the supply of agricultural products from Ukraine leads to devastation of local farmers, so each country has adopted its own restrictions on the supply of Ukrainian grain.
Slovak government in November made a decision Regarding the expansion of the embargo on the supply of agricultural products from Ukraine.
Romanian farmers before was threatened Protests against Ukrainian imports.