Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia will ask the European Commission to extend restrictions on the import of individual agricultural goods from Ukraine, to which they have agreed in exchange for financial support.
As the PAP publication writes, Polish Minister of Agriculture Robert Telus announced this on Friday.
Talks on Ukrainian agricultural products took place on Friday between representatives of the so-called "frontline states" - Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.
As Telus said at a press conference after the meeting, the appeal to the European Commission will be to provide help from the European Union's common budget, as the funds from the Common Agricultural Policy Crisis Fund have already been fully exhausted.
The Polish minister also said that the five EU countries are urged to proceed with the European Commission regulation on interim measures on imports of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine.
"We were promised that the regulation will continue to apply after June 5," he said.
In addition, Telus reported that Poland exports products imported from Ukraine – in particular Flour, poultry meat, eggs, apple juice, soft fruits – will continue to monitor and informed the representative of Ukraine at a meeting.
Recall that on May 2, after pressure from five European Union Member States, the European Commission decided to suspend Ukrainian imports for the Zusacollapse in local prices, has taken exceptional and temporary arrangements for the import of certain agricultural commodities from Ukraine.
The EU Commission has replaced the unilateral decisions of the five countries with its own regulation and the import ban now applies to four agricultural products: Wheat, Corn, Rapeseeds and Sunflower seeds from Ukraine.
Source: Ukragroconsult (Ukraine)