Ukraine asks Brussels to end the ban on its grain in five EU countries

Published 2023년 5월 30일

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Ukraine's Minister of Agrarian Policy, Mykola Solskyi, has appealed to the European Commission to lift a temporary ban on five Ukrainian agri-food products in five EU countries by June 5, arguing that the ban is causing difficulties for Ukraine's agricultural sector. The ban, which includes maize, wheat, rapeseed, sunflower oil, and sunflower seeds, was imposed to prevent the spread of pests and diseases, but Solskyi contends that it is creating obstacles for Ukrainian farmers to export grain. He also highlighted that the EU had imported rapeseed from Ukraine before the war and questioned the necessity of the restrictions during the conflict. The Ukrainian government is working to prevent the extension of this ban and is open to resolving the issue through dialogue, although the possibility of involving the World Trade Organization has not been ruled out.

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The Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Mykola Solskyi, has asked the European Commission on Tuesday not to extend beyond June 5 the temporary ban on five Ukrainian agri-food products in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary because this decision is creating “difficulties” for the Ukrainian agricultural sector. "We are against it (a possible extension) and we think that it is not a correct action," he said in statements to the media in Brussels after meeting with the heads of Agriculture of the Twenty-seven. Solskyi has argued that just days after Brussels agreed to restrict trade in maize, wheat, rapeseed, sunflower oil and sunflower seeds in these five Member States (where these products can only transit to the rest of the EU, but not stay), its primary sector began to encounter "great difficulties" to get the grain out of the country. The Ukrainian head of Agriculture has defended, for example, that his country already sold rapeseed to the EU before the war and, ...

Source: Agroclm