Russia is in no hurry to return to Russian counters European cucumbers.
Russia is in no hurry to return to Russian counters European cucumbers. Moscow said that the European Union does not fulfill the agreements reached at the recent Summit of the RUSSIA-EU in Nizhny Novgorod, about the return of European vegetables to the Russian market. The head of Rospotrebnadzor Russian offices for quality control of products-Gennady Onishchenko said that a ban on the import of vegetables from the EU vvdennyj due to the spread of acute intestinal infections, e. coli is not cancelled by European officials. "There is quite a logical question-as the farmers of Europe relate to the fact that because of the ambivalent attitude of European officials of their products does not find its sales in Russia?," Onishchenko said in an interview with Interfax. The EU on Wednesday expressed his dissatisfaction with Russia's ban on imports of European vegetables. The representative of the European Commission described the embargo continuing Hansen Pia unjustified because, in her words, "the source of the contamination is identified, and he was removed from the market." 10 June, epidemiologists in Germany found that e. coli outbreak linked to sprouts legume crops on a farm, near Hamburg. "We Confirm each batch by laboratory tests, give out warranty document, and we will take your products," Gennady Onishchenko, head of epidemiology in the wake of the recent EU-Russia Summit "in Nizhny Novgorod, the parties agreed that Moscow will resume the import of European vegetables. But it was prozojti only after experts of the European Commission and Russia agree on vegetable quality certificates that will be issued to specific suppliers of health services in the EU. According to Onishchenko, such arrangements had not yet been achieved. "We are very consistent," said the head of Rospotrebnadzor. According to him, Russia from the beginning, called the conditions of return of vegetable products to your market: determining the source of infection, ways of transmission and stop the epidemic. "Then, when we despaired of getting the answers to these questions, we have shifted to a more pragmatic format. We confirm each batch by laboratory tests, give out warranty document, and we will take your products, "said Chief sanitary doctor of Russia. "Not in the spirit of the WTO," prohibition of the supply of fresh vegetables from Europe to Russia due to outbreaks of intestinal infections since the beginning of June. The latest round of consultations with European Commission representatives took place on Tuesday, June 14. The problem of supply of European vegetables to Europe suddenly has become the main theme of the EU-Russia Summit. On the eve of the meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, the Association of European producers of fresh fruit and vegetables called for the EU to oppose Freshfel ban and demand its deletion. Brussels has warned Moscow that the ban is contrary to the spirit of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to which Moscow intends to accede in the near future. EU President Herman van rompuy said that Moscow's decision "is not justified, wrong from a scientific point of view".
