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Moscow - Ukraine and Russia have decided to form a joint working group to harmonize the two countries' consumer protection requirements, Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said. 

“The group will hold systemic sessions two times a year – one time in Russia and the second time in Ukraine – in order to harmonize the quality standards and requirements, including those in the sphere of information,” he told reporters after negotiations with head of the Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko in Moscow on Friday.

“We are generally satisfied with the talks. We had a constructive discussion. An understanding was reached,” the Ukrainian minister said.

The sides agreed to step up the operations of Ukrainian laboratories that will be put in charge of monitoring the quality of Ukrainian products exported to Russia, he said.