AI
Sunday, June 26, 2011 9:29:59 PM
Russia lifts EU veggie ban
by Lidia Okorokova at 23/06/2011 22:10
© RIA Novosti. Alexandr Kryazhev
video insert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1P-CsAtmFY
Just over two weeks after the EU-Russia summit took place in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and Brussels signed a deal on lifting a vegetable import ban. President Dmitry Medvedev and the EU officials who took part in the summit agreed to lift the ban during the summit, but certain steps should have been done before a new measure is implemented.
Every year Russia imports around 1.1 million tons of vegetables from the European Union, RIA Novosti reported. The trade is worth 600 million euros annually, according to the European Commission.
Russia is the largest vegetable market for the EU – 20 per cent of all imports to Russia are vegetables.
Russia imposed a blanket ban on EU vegetables on June 2, after thousands of people were diagnosed with an E.coli strain that has killed 40 people.
Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights, Gennady Onishchenko, said on Tuesday that the import ban would not be lifted until the E.coli outbreak stops and there are no more cases registered in Europe, RIA Novosti reported him as saying.
"Countries will need to fill in the certificate, and only after that our customs authorities will decide on the admission or non-admission of these products," said Onishchenko.
European Commissioner for Health John Dalli and director general of the EU Commission’s Directorate for Health and Consumer Protection Paola Koji flew into Moscow to meet with Russian health and consumer authorities for talks.
“We just had our commissioner in town, we are hoping that this can implemented as soon as possible,” Kevin Tait, political adviser to the EU Delegation in Moscow, told The Moscow News. “This agreement allows us to import fresh vegetables into Russia – it’s up to European Union Standards Association or European Commission to certify that the fresh vegetables are healthy.”
Tait said the EU will now be issuing certificates with each shipment of fresh vegetables to Russia.
http://themoscownews.com/business/20110623/188783227.html
by Lidia Okorokova at 23/06/2011 22:10
© RIA Novosti. Alexandr Kryazhev
video insert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1P-CsAtmFY
Just over two weeks after the EU-Russia summit took place in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and Brussels signed a deal on lifting a vegetable import ban. President Dmitry Medvedev and the EU officials who took part in the summit agreed to lift the ban during the summit, but certain steps should have been done before a new measure is implemented.
Every year Russia imports around 1.1 million tons of vegetables from the European Union, RIA Novosti reported. The trade is worth 600 million euros annually, according to the European Commission.
Russia is the largest vegetable market for the EU – 20 per cent of all imports to Russia are vegetables.
Russia imposed a blanket ban on EU vegetables on June 2, after thousands of people were diagnosed with an E.coli strain that has killed 40 people.
Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights, Gennady Onishchenko, said on Tuesday that the import ban would not be lifted until the E.coli outbreak stops and there are no more cases registered in Europe, RIA Novosti reported him as saying.
"Countries will need to fill in the certificate, and only after that our customs authorities will decide on the admission or non-admission of these products," said Onishchenko.
European Commissioner for Health John Dalli and director general of the EU Commission’s Directorate for Health and Consumer Protection Paola Koji flew into Moscow to meet with Russian health and consumer authorities for talks.
“We just had our commissioner in town, we are hoping that this can implemented as soon as possible,” Kevin Tait, political adviser to the EU Delegation in Moscow, told The Moscow News. “This agreement allows us to import fresh vegetables into Russia – it’s up to European Union Standards Association or European Commission to certify that the fresh vegetables are healthy.”
Tait said the EU will now be issuing certificates with each shipment of fresh vegetables to Russia.
http://themoscownews.com/business/20110623/188783227.html
Jonathan Swift said, "May you live all the days of your life!"
Discover What Traders Are Watching
Explore small cap ideas before they hit the headlines.
