The Ministry of Agriculture proposed to lift the embargo on the import of breeding snails

This is due to the need to import breeding snails from the EU. Breeding snails, including grape snails, can be excluded from the list of products, the import of which is prohibited into Russia under the food embargo. The draft of the relevant government decree, developed by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, is posted on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. According to the document, the ban on the import of fish, crustaceans and molluscs into Russia from countries that have imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation will not apply to "live breeding land gastropods." The summary report to the draft resolution notes that the amendments were developed "in connection with the need to import breeding products of snails from the countries of the European Union." The Ministry of Agriculture in its explanatory materials indicates that at present there is no possibility of importing breeding land snails (grape and sulfur) from countries with respect to which the food ...