The European Commission is monitoring imports of Ukrainian agricultural products to EU countries and insists on lifting unilateral restrictions of neighbouring countries, including Hungary, EC spokesman Olof Gill has said.
“The European Commission continues to closely monitor the flow of agri-food exports from Ukraine to the EU … In this context, we called on Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to lift their unilateral restrictions,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Gill recalled that the Ukrainian authorities had taken measures to control exports and prevent negative impact on the European market.
Earlier, the head of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture Istvan Nagy said that the authorities had tightened control over compliance with the embargo on imports of agricultural products from Ukraine.
Polish Deputy Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michal Kolodziejczak also said that Warsaw demanded that the Ukrainian authorities voluntarily suspend the transit of their grain through Polish territory.