Italy supports the European Commission's proposal to extend duty-free imports of Ukrainian products by 1 year, said Minister of Agriculture and Food sovereignty Francesco Lollobrigida after the Council of EU Agriculture Ministers in Brussels.
"Today, we have confirmed to the Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine our support for her cause, but there are issues of balance that must besides be found to defend our farmers," explained Lollobrigida to Italian journalists.
"Today we approved the compromise that the Belgian Presidency is inactive working on," said the Minister, quoted by the information agency Askaws.
The Belgian Presidency of the EU Council expects to agree shortly on a fresh proposal from the European Commission to extend duty-free imports of goods from Ukraine to the EU by 1 year, said Belgian Minister David Clarinval before the gathering of EU agriculture ministers.
Lollobrigida said that in addition to Belgium as president of the Council of the EU, the Italian side met with representatives of France, Greece, Croatia, Spain and another countries in fresh days to discuss a common position.
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The European Parliament's Committee on global Trade supported in March the European Commission's proposal to extend duty-free imports from Ukraine by 1 year, until 5 June 2025.
The EU suspended duties on all goods originating in Ukraine for 1 year in June 2022 to aid Kiev increase exports, which caused marketing problems for European farmers. At the end of May 2023, duty-free imports were extended for another year, until June 2024.
At the end of March 2023, 5 EU countries bordering Ukraine (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia) requested the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to intervene in the crisis caused by the influx of cereals from Ukraine. The European Commission has adopted provisional restrictive measures to destruct the logistical difficulties associated with these products in the border countries of the Union. They entered into force on 2 May and were extended in June to 15 September.
On 15 September 2023, the European Commission decided not to extend the restrictions on imports of 4 Ukrainian agricultural products to respective EU border countries, but obliged Kiev to introduce export control measures. The authorities of Slovakia, Hungary and Poland then announced that they were unilaterally extending the ban. In particular, Hungary extended the ban at national level and the list of products covered by the import ban included 24 products. In addition to cereals, the list includes various types of meat, poultry, eggs, honey, vegetables and wine.
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