The Spanish Interprofessional Citrícola asks the EU that South Africa proves that it complies with the cold treatment and insists on extending it to mandarins

The Spanish Interprofessional Citrícola (Intercitrus) has initiated the negotiations to claim from the European Commission (EC) "documentary evidence and a verification system" that South Africa is complying with its orange exports to the community market with the prescriptive cold treatment or treatment in regulated cold in 2022. Intercitrus reacts in this way to the evidence that the measures established so far "are insufficient for the main non-EU supplier of citrus to stop exporting this dangerous pest" for which it claims that, in addition, the current cold treatment is extended to all crops that are hosts of the insect, such as mandarins and grapefruits. This is how the president of this organization, Inmaculada Sanfeliu, stated after analyzing the development of the current import campaign from the southern hemisphere, in which, together with the aforementioned Thaumatotibia leucotreta, the threat of a second plague has re-emerged whose fight is also classified as ' ...