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Ukraine and the European Commission have agreed to resume exports of poultry products of Ukrainian origin to the European Union in accordance with the principle of regionalization.

“The issue of regionalization (in chicken supplies) was one of the most sensitive in communication with the European Commission. As a result of debates and decisions made between Ukraine and the EU, they have already started to apply the principle of regionalization to trade in poultry and products made of it. At present, exports of Ukrainian poultry in the European Union have been re-launched,” the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry said in a statement.

A respective agreement was reached during a meeting Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Kutoviy with Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis during the International Green Week Berlin, an internationally leading public exhibition for the food, agriculture, and gardening industry.

“We are determined not only to simplify the regime of mutual trade, but also on the full adaptation of the Ukrainian legislation with the provisions of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement in the field of sanitary and phytosanitary measures with the aim of mutual recognition of equivalence,” the statement reported quoting Chairperson of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumers’ Rights Protection Volodymyr Lapa, as saying.

As reported, Ukraine’s Food Safety Service in early December 2016 received an official notification about a ban on poultry exports from Ukraine to the EU meat in connection with outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5) in Ukraine’s Kherson region.

What is more, the situation suspended eggs supplies from that region to Hong Kong.

The duty-free quota for poultry supplies from Ukraine to the EU is set at about 36,000 tonnes per year.