RUSSIAN EMBARGO.(European Union. European Commission)(Brief article)

Europe Agri, December, 2006

The European Commission is hoping for "rapid and substantive" discussions with Moscow in order to lift Russia's threat of an embargo on European animal products from 1 January, Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson told the press in Brussels on 6 December. "I would like to see substantive discussions held without delay before 1 January to ensure Bulgaria and Romania's accession passes without a hitch," he added.

Russian officials threatened the Commission at the beginning of November with an embargo on all European animal products owing to health concerns linked to the entry into the EU on 1 January of Romania and Bulgaria, two countries affected by swine fever.

Commission experts have since been trying to explain to the Russians that all necessary...

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