Tuesday, December 29, 2015

EC allows exports of ten Ukrainian dairy producers to EU

The European Commission has granted ten Ukrainian dairy producers access to the EU market effective from January 10, 2016, Ukraine's Deputy Agrarian Policy Minister Vladyslava Rutytska reported on Facebook.

"The European Commission published its decision to include our companies specializing in milk production and dairy products processing in the official list of approved EU exporters. The resolution comes into force on January 10, 2016," Rutytska wrote.

The list of companies authorized to export dairy products to the EU includes enterprises of Milk Alliance Group (Yagotynsky Butter Plant and Zolotonisky Butter-Processing Integrated Works), Lactalis (Lactalis-Mykolaiv and LLC Molochniy Dim), Milkiland (Nedryhailivskyi Cheese Plant and Romny Dairy Combine Subsidiary of Ros Private Enterprise, Menskiy Cheese Subsidiary of Prometei Private Enterprise), Loostdorf Company, Lviv Cold Storage Facility and Gadyachsyr.


As UNIAN reported earlier, in April 2015, the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) within the European Commission published the final report with the outcome of the last autumn's visit of a mission by the FVO inspectors on the the Ukrainian dairy products quality verification. Preliminary export permits were issued to ten Ukrainian dairy producers in early December.


Ukraine requests the EU to increase export quotas and facilitate access to the European market for Ukrainian producers. Experts say the main factors curbing the export of Ukrainian dairy products to the EU are low quality of raw materials and high prices. The launch of new sales markets is said to help offset the damage caused due to a loss of the Russian market, which previously accounted for 90% of Ukrainian dairy exports.

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