During a visit to Ukraine of Gennadiy Onishchenko, Head of Russian Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance (Rospotrebnadzor), and his meeting with the Minister of economic development and trade of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko the parties has been principally agreed an approach to lifting a temporary limitations on export of Ukrainian cheese to Russia imposed by Rospotrebnadzor. Mr. Onishchenko stated that the parties agreed about the further inspections of the Ukrainian cheese production plants – exporters to Russia, in particular an arrangement of the inspections of two of those at the next week.

As a results of the visit it was announced the formation of the joint working group on harmonization of Ukrainian and Russian technical standards, including those in a cheese production and deployment a special laboratory in Ukraine to control the quality of Ukrainian cheese to be supplied to Russia.

AgroInvest comment: We can only assume that the negotiations will have certain effect on the ban of cheese exports, as in the past negotiations were highly unproductive for the Ukrainian side.

For the full information, look in "AgroInvest.UAIndex" issue.

In order to view sample Daily UAIndex report, please follow the link.

In order to view sample Weekly UAIndex report, please follow the link.

UkrAgroConsult