Sergey Dankvert, head of the Russian Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS), proposed Leonid Zaets, minister of agriculture and provisions of Belorussia, to return to earlier opened discussions over the border monitoring. Mr Dankert proposes to jointly monitor supplies of regulated products through the external borders of the Customs Union on the Belorussian side.
Earlier Belorussian ag ministry declared that such control is possible if external borders of the whole Customs Union (located on frontiers of Kazakhstan and Russia) are monitored as well.
Starting from September 2014, VPSS has discovered 248 cases of import of quarantined products to Russia though Belorussia, total weight of which exceeded 5,000 tons.