Ukraine: We have to raise the hop industry to a competitive European level

First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotskyi and Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Vitaly Holovnya took part in the Committee hearings "State and prospects of development of the domestic hop industry" held in Zhytomyr. Taras Vysotskyi emphasized that in order to bring the norms of current legislation to European standards, to produce high-quality hop products according to EU standards, to sell them on the domestic market and to increase exports to other countries, the hop industry needs support and radical legislative changes. "We have to revive the Ukrainian hop industry and raise it to a competitive European level. Recently, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy presented to the Parliamentary Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy the revised draft of the law "On hops and hop products" (9234). The document regulates customs import formalities; the procedure for checking hops during import for compliance with minimum market ...