The State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 2022 agreed 22 forms of international veterinary certificates for exporting animal products to 12 countries.
As follows from the agency’s press release issued on Monday, last year the market was opened to Albania for semi-finished meat from Ukraine; to Georgia for snails; to Dominica for milk and dairy products; to Israel for ornamental freshwater fish, live rabbits, chewed pet items, fresh and treated skins and hides; to Canada for poultry meat and products; to Kenya for milk and dairy products.
In addition, export of Ukrainian chewed pet items, raw and canned pet food to Northern Macedonia, pet food to Singapore; hatching eggs, canned and processed pet food to Serbia; processed animal protein products (not for human consumption) and fish products to Turkey, table eggs to Pakistan, and meat products and semi-finished products to Montenegro is permitted.
Gosprodpotrebtsluzhba also stressed that in 2022 to 432 increased the number of enterprises-producers of animal products with the right to export their products to the EU, which is 53 more than it was at the beginning of 2022. By comparison, for 2021, 23 businesses received such a right.
“This positive dynamics in increasing the number of Ukrainian exporters to the European market is extremely important in the context of Ukraine’s status as a candidate country for accession to the European Union. The work in this direction will continue permanently and if the requirements of the Association Agreement with the EU are fulfilled as part of our obligations to join the European Union, this number will increase daily”, – the agency summarized in a press release.
