Bulgaria intends to cancel restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products

The Committee on Economic Policy and Innovation of the Parliament of Bulgaria approved a draft decision that the country does not support the extension of the ban on the import of certain agricultural products from Ukraine after September 15, 2023.

“European Truth” writes about this, Forbes Bulgaria reports.

Ten members of the committee voted “for” the draft decision, four were “against”, two abstained. The final decision must be taken by the parliament at the plenary session.

The draft of Bulgaria’s position on agricultural imports from Ukraine states that the country does not support the continuation after September 15 of the extraordinary measure to ban the import of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds from Ukraine to Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The document instructs the Council of Ministers to take the necessary measures to express this position.

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The project was submitted by deputies from PP-DB, GERB and DPS Kyryll Petkov, Delyan Peevskyi, Atanas Atanasov, Hamid Hamid, Rumen Hristov and Oleksandr Ivanov. Farmers did not congratulate him, saying they were shocked by the decision.

The head of the National Association of Grain Producers, Iliya Prodanov, said that the decision does not contain an analysis of the consequences that will arise from it, and the text “endangers Bulgarian producers.”

According to Prodanov, such a decision threatens the agricultural industry in the country. He warned that the current tensions in the sector “will one day erupt on a huge scale” and said the association would protect the interests of producers “in every possible way”.

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On Tuesday, the Polish government adopted a resolution declaring its intentions to continue the ban at the national levelif it is not extended at the EU level.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal in response announced an appeal to WTO arbitration in case Poland blocks the export of Ukrainian grain.

For more information on this topic, read the article The crisis of September 15: a new test for relations between Ukraine and Poland.

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