Russia is expecting the European Union to provide proposals that could lead to a resumption of vegetable exports to Russia.
"We are waiting for their proposals and want the work to be continued to clear vegetables into Russia step-by-step, compliant with safety standards," Gennady Onishchenko, the head of the Russian consumer rights and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, told Interfax on Tuesday.
Russia remains adherent to the agreements reached at the recent Russia-EU summit in Nizhny Novgorod on prospects of restarting European vegetable imports "despite continuing uncertainty and against the backdrop of growing incidence of intestinal infections in Europe," he said.
Russia banned vegetable imports from Europe in early June over an outbreak of an intestinal infection in some of the European Union countries, mostly in Germany.
