We are open to actions that can stabilize this difficult situation, government spokesman Piotr Müller told PAP about the proposal of the Ministry of Agricultural and Food Policy of Ukraine to agree on a new memorandum of cooperation in response to the import ban of agricultural products from Ukraine. Ukraine to Poland.
Polish Development and Technology Minister Waldemar Buda announced on Twitter on Saturday that, in accordance with the decision of the Council of Ministers, he has signed a regulation banning imports of agricultural products from Ukraine. The regulation assumes that no later than June 30 this year. There is an import ban from Ukraine, eg grains, sugar, eggs.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Policy of Ukraine, in response to the import ban of agricultural products to Poland from Ukraine, has proposed in a communique issued on Saturday for the Polish side to agree on a new memorandum on cooperation and to jointly investigate abuses.
Necessary decision
Commenting on the Ukrainian side’s response to PAP, government spokesman Piotr Müller said:
The decision was taken by the Polish government due to the inability to provide other effective solutions in terms of stabilizing the agri-food market in Poland. It was a necessary decision at the time. We already informed the European Commission about the situation a few weeks ago in a joint letter from Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, which was initiated by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The Commission has not taken any satisfactory action in this regard. We were therefore forced to take national action.
We are open to other actions that can stabilize this difficult situation. But on this point action was necessary
Muller noted.
Agriculture Minister Robert Telus also referred to the proposal from the Ukrainian side.
Of course we are open, we will talk about it in the near future. I think there will be a meeting with the Ukrainian side on Monday to discuss these matters
– said PAP. When asked where and in what format the meeting would take place, he replied that it was being prepared.
In its communiqué, the Ukrainian Ministry assured that Ukraine is ready to cooperate with Poland in investigating abuses that might have occurred in a particular matter and led to the current situation. The ministry ruled that “crisis phenomena are intended to encourage our countries to cooperate even more closely in all areas to remove the root cause of these problems, which is Russian aggression.”
The ministry “deplores the decision of Polish colleagues to temporarily restrict exports to and from Poland (including transit) of agricultural products from Ukraine.” The ministry noted that “it has always been in favor of open, constructive and mutually beneficial cooperation in accordance with the Association and Free Trade Agreements between Ukraine and the EU.”
Export from 500 to 700 thousand. tons of products
Ukrainian Agriculture and Food Policy Minister Mykola Solski stressed during the briefing that 500,000 to 700,000 are being exported from Ukraine across the Polish border in several months. tons of products, such as grain, oil, sugar, eggs, meat, according to the agency Ukrinform.
On Saturday in the village of Łyse near Ostrołęka, during the Law and Justice convention on agriculture, a package of solutions for farmers “Jarosław Kaczyński’s Concrete For Polish Village” was presented. They provide for the general purchase of grain, fertilizer subsidies and a ban on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine
Law and Justice reported on Twitter.
PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński said at the convention that the government had decided to ban the import of grain and dozens of other types of food from Ukraine to Poland.
Well, today the government has decided on a regulation prohibiting the entry, so to speak, of bringing grain to Poland, but also dozens of other types of food (…). They are listed in the annex to this regulation (…), from this listed grain to honey products, very, very many things
Kaczynski said.
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Source: wPolityce