After yesterday’s agreement by the European Commission with Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, the legal services of the Commission and the Directorate-General for Trade are now preparing the relevant regulations. The goal is for them to enter into force on May 2, which – according to the Brussels correspondent of Polish Radio – Brussels informed the member states. By then, four states are to lift their unilateral lockdowns.
As for sunflower oil, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, who called the European Commission on this matter, sought to remove it from the list of products subject to the ban, according to Beata Płomecka’s findings. The matter was also consulted by Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. “For Poland, sunflower oil is not a problem” – it was reported. The oil, along with the other products that the five countries demanded to be banned, will be subject to an accelerated special investigation by the European Commission. If it confirms that there are market disturbances, the Commission will reintroduce quotas and duties. The same applies to other articles, the large imports of which were reported to the EC by five countries. This includes eggs, poultry and dairy products.
Agreement with five countries on excessive imports from Ukraine
The Vice-President of the European Commission confirmed on Friday evening an agreement with five countries, including Poland, on solving the problem of excessive imports from Ukraine. “We had to act to respond to the concerns of farmers in both EU countries and Ukraine,” Valdis Dombrovskis tweeted. He also published the details of the agreement. The import ban will cover four products – wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower. Sunflower oil was deleted from this list, although the Minister of Agriculture, Robert Telus, had informed about it a few days earlier and was confirmed by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski.
The agreement also provides for a package of financial support for farmers in the amount of EUR 100 million, of which Poland will receive the largest amount – EUR 40 million. It will be possible to increase this amount by 200 percent co-financing from the national budget. The negotiation success was commented on by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. She tweeted that it secures both Ukraine’s export capacity so that it can continue to feed the world and the income streams of European farmers.
Source: Gazeta
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