Ukrainian Agrarian Policy Ministry planning cancellation of wheat export licenses - Association of European Businesses
MOSCOW. June 27 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food is working to extend the cancellation of duties and quotas on agricultural exports to the European Union throughout the period of Ukraine's EU candidate status and to harmonize Ukrainian and European laws.
First Deputy Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Taras Vysotsky spoke about integration prospects in the light of Ukraine's EU candidate status at a meeting with the Association of European Businesses (AEB) on June 22, Ukrainian media outlets said on Friday, with the reference to the AEB website.
According to the AEB, it is planned to cancel licenses for Ukrainian wheat exports to EU countries in early June, alongside the cancellation of EU quotas and duties.
For the purpose of opening alternate supply routes, the ministry is in talks on using the Baltic and Polish corridors for agricultural exports.
"Seeking to support the dairy industry, the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry is conducting negotiations with the European Commission on the provision of grants of up to 50 million euros to small farmers and is considering the possibility of such grants in other international support programs," the AEB quoted Vysotsky as saying.
According to the association, there are plans to isolate perishable cargo from the rest of the traffic at two checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border, in Krakow and Jagodina, in the near future.
Regulation (EU) 2022/870 of the European Parliament and of the Council on temporary trade-liberalization measures took effect on June 4 to exempt Ukrainian exports of all duties and quotas for one year.
This is a matter of duties on industrial commodities, the suspended system of entrance prices for fruit and vegetables and all tariff quotas for agricultural produce, and the suspended anti-dumping duties on imports from Ukraine and global protective measures on Ukrainian goods.
The European Council decided on June 23 to grant the EU candidate status to Ukraine.