BUDAPEST, February 24. /TASS/. Agriculture ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia addressed the European Commission with the call to abolish higher quotas for agricultural products from Ukraine and bind Ukrainian companies to follow standards of the EU market, Agriculture Minister of Hungary Istvan Nagy said.
“We urged Brussels to take measures in the joint letter with my counterparts from Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia. The EU regulation governing imports from Ukraine will expire this June, and the European Commission should therefore find a long-term solution of market problems caused by Ukrainian agricultural products,” the minister wrote on his page in Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta designated as extremist in Russia).
East European countries consider necessary to return to EU quotas for agricultural supplies from Ukraine that existed by February 2022, Nagy noted. The ministers also suggested that the European Commission restores customs duties and “introduce individual quotas on the regional basis” for such supplies to countries bordering on Ukraine. The four countries also urged Brussels to monitor compliance of Ukrainian agricultural products coming to the European market with sanitary, environment and other standards of the EU.