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SARAJEVO, March 31 (FENA) - Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH Staša Košarac stated that the exports of poultry meat, poultry meat products and eggs for processing from BiH to the European Union have not been suspended or threatened.
“In the past period, there were various misinformation and speculations about the ban on the export of chicken meat and industrial eggs to the European market, among other things, mentioning the possibility that BiH will be left without licenses for export to the EU on March 31. There will be no export ban so that domestic poultry farmers continue to place their products on the EU market without hindrance,” said Košarac.
According to him, one of the obligations of BiH when it comes to the export of poultry meat and poultry meat products to the European market is to conduct testing for certain infectious diseases.
“Difficulties arose due to the unenforceable and inadequate decision from 2005 on the designation of reference laboratories in BiH, which were supposed to perform these tests. That decision is not in line with EU standards. Unfortunately, the previous structure of the Ministry completely ignored the problem, which is completely inadmissible and unacceptable,” said Košarac.
He noted that, after taking over the ministerial mandate, he actively committed himself to solve that inherited problem, which resulted in a positive outcome for the domestic poultry sector.
“Appreciating the needs of our export-oriented poultry, we continuously cooperated with the EU Delegation to BiH, the European Commission and the competent European laboratory in Venice, and finally came to an ad hoc solution, which ensures continued unhindered export of chicken meat to the EU,” said Minister Košarac.
He pointed out that the Ministry, in cooperation with the competent institutions, will work on a systematic solution to the issue of reference laboratories, which will be submitted to the BiH Council of Ministers for adoption, the BiH Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations said.
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