EU underlines importance of common approach to agricultural imports from Ukraine – Eurean Commission

Executive Vice President of the Eurean Commission Valdis Dombrovskis and Eurean Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski said this in a joint statement flowing a meeting with representatives of Bulgaria, Hungary, Pand, Slovakia and Romania, as well as Ukraine.

The full text of the document is published on the Eurean Commission’s website, Ukrinform reports.

“We presented the EU's comprehensive prosals to address the concerns expressed by these 5 Member States regarding the deterioration in the situation of Union producers for specific products. This prosed Commission package includes a second tranche of agricultural financial support to affected farmers, exceptional safeguard measures on key products and measures to facilitate the transit of Ukrainian grain exports via the Sidarity Lanes. The Commission's prosed package is subject to Member States lifting their unilateral measures,” the document says.

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“We underlined the importance of rapidly flowing a common EU approach, rather than unilateral sutions to avoid multiple bans and sutions which put the internal market at risk,” representatives of the Eurean Commission said.

According to the statement, the Commission took note of the views presented by participants.

“We agreed to continue pitical consultations in the coming days in view of a swift sution,” the document says.

As reported, there were protests by local farmers in the countries bordering Ukraine, who are suffering from the influx of Ukrainian agricultural exports that resulted in a decrease in market prices for agricultural products.

The governments of Pand, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria have announced a ban on the imports of Ukrainian grain and other agricultural products. The Eurean Commission insists on finding a common sution to existing problems within the EU.

The governments of five EU countries – Pand, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria – addressed the Eurean Commission with a letter prosing that protective measures be taken to limit agricultural imports from Ukraine.