RMF: the European Commission has expressed its readiness to expand the ban on food imports from Ukraine
The European Commission has “unofficially” expressed its readiness to expand the list of agricultural products banned for import from Ukraine, the Polish radio station RMF FM, citing sources in Brussels.
According to the radio station, the negotiations held the day before between the Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis and representatives of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria on the issue of food imports from Ukraine ended inconclusively, they will continue on Monday at the level of ministers of agriculture.
As RMF FM Brussels correspondent Katarzyna Szymanska-Borginon noted, the European Commission is “ready to make concessions” and expand the list of goods banned for import from Ukraine. According to one of the meeting participants, “there is progress, and the negotiations are going in the right direction.
At the moment, the European Commission has officially agreed to ban imports of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds, while “unofficially” the EC is ready to include other products from the list provided by five countries, such as eggs and poultry.
Four European states – Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria – introduced a temporary ban on import of Ukrainian grain and other plant and animal products as of April 22. We are talking about goods entering the common market without duties.
Earlier, in a letter to EC chair Ursula von der Leyen, the prime ministers of the mentioned countries pointed out that due to a significant increase in supplies from Ukraine “there was an unprecedented increase in imports” of grains, oilseeds, poultry, sugar, apple juice, berries, honey, flour and pasta products.
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