Ukraine introduces licensing for grain exports to five Eastern European countries

Ukraine has developed a procedure for verifying exports of 4 agricultural crops in accordance with the European Commission’s decision. And currently, it does not export agricultural products to 5 border countries without their approval.

This was announced by Mykola Solsky, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, during a meeting of the ministers of agriculture of the Visegrad countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary).

This procedure requires the Ukrainian government to issue a license within 30 days of receiving an export application.

Currently, all neighboring countries have been sent proposals on how this mechanism will work. Now Ukraine is waiting for answers and possible solutions.

“As of today, the official response has come from Romania,” Sokalsky says.

As a reminder, the Ministers of Agriculture of Slovakia and Ukraine agreed to create a grain trade licensing system that will allow the ban on imports of four Ukrainian goods to Slovakia to be lifted once it is established. And the Polish side will study the Ukrainian export plan and prepare its proposals for it. We would like to add that today, after the establishment of the temporary “humanitarian corridor,” another cargo ship departed from the Ukrainian Black Sea port.

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