EU vegetables ban

Russian Federation makes changes to list of prohibited products

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The full text of the new resolution No830 from August 20 can be found here.

The previous ban regarding “vegetables, edible roots and tubers” with the the customs community codes 0701, 0702 00 000, 0703, 0704, 0705, 0706, 0707 00, 0708, 0709, 0710, 0711, 0712, 0713, 0714 under recent talks have made the following changes to “vegetables, edible roots and tubers (excluding potatoes seeds, onions, sweet corn hybrid for planting and peas for sowing) with the following codes: 0701 (except 0701 10 000 0), 0702 00 000, 0703 (except 0703 10 110 0), 0704, 0705, 0706, 0707 00, 0708, 0709, 0710, 0711, 0712 (except 0712 90 110 0), 0713 (except 0713 10 100 0), 0714.

The category of Fruits and Nuts remains the same, the prohibited imports codes are 0801, 0802, 0803, 0804, 0805, 0806, 0807, 0808, 0809, 0810, 0811, 081.

The countries banned from shipping the specified goods to Russia for one year remain the same: the US, countries of the European Union, Canada, Australia and Norway.

The Russian Federation introduced a total ban on August 7 for a period of one year on supplies of beef, pork, cheeses, poultry, milk and fish from countries of the European Union, US, Australia, Canada and Norway. The measure was taken due to a number of countries having imposed economic sanctions against Russia because of events in Ukraine.

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Tax lifted for horticultural produce from the EU to Russia

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The measure, which was adopted on June 22nd by the Russian Federation, was imposed to prevent the entry of the bacteria into Russia. With the elimination of this measure, which came into force on August 9th, the EU exports of fresh horticultural produce to Russia are exempt from the obligation to submit a certificate of absence of E. coli.

The current situation for exports is the same as before the outbreaks of E. coli, based on compliance with the memorandum signed between the European Commission and the Russian Federation in February 2008, which requires from each shipment exported a “document of use of plant protection products” and in the case of citrus, nectarines, peaches and pears, a “security certificate”, showing the result of the analysis.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

Russia to lift ban on EU vegetables from August 9th

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Russia will lift ban on raw vegetables from the European Union countries starting on Tuesday, August 9th, reported Russian news agencies on Monday.

Russia banned imports of raw vegetables from the European Union on June 2 due to a deadly E.coli outbreak. Moscow later agreed to drop the ban provided it received safety guarantees and has since allowed imports from some EU countries.

The EU, which exported about 600 million euros ($850 million) worth of vegetables to Russia last year, had said the blanket ban was not scientifically justified.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

Russia ready to lift EU veg import ban

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Russia’s sanitary watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is ready to totally lift a ban on import of vegetables from Europe if there are no cases of the E’Coli infections registered, Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Sunday.

Russia introduced the vegetable embargo on June 2 after the E.Coli bacteria, traced to vegetables, killed at least 40 people in Europe.

“It reassures us that the number of people, infected by the E.Coli, has fallen significantly,” Onishchenko said. “If it follows this way, we will consider the issue of the total lifting of the import ban, but with certain restrictions.”

Onishchenko said that among the countries, whose vegetables are .

As of now Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Greece and the Czech Republic, Poland and France have permission to export vegetables to Russia.

Source: en.rian.ru