Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Polish-Czech conflict of eggs. Ministry of Agriculture: “unacceptable, unfounded accusations” – Money.pl

“Poland meets all of the control and monitoring of quality agri-food products, and therefore considers it incomprehensible repeated questioning Czech robust quality of Polish agri-food products. ” The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development rejects the allegations of the Czech authorities at Polish exporters of eggs and again promises “appropriate action.”

On Wednesday 13 July the Czech Agriculture Minister Marian Jurečka questioned the quality of eggs from Polish, accused the Polish producers’ price dumping on the Czech market, and accused them of entering the local consumer confusion regarding the country of origin of eggs imported to the Czech Republic.

the Czech veterinary authorities announced, however, that in June was referred to the Polish party 160 thousand. Polish eggs, because “some of them were not labeled at all.” The communication stated that, because of other irregularities previously withheld was selling half a million Polish eggs.

In a commentary for money.pl accusations Czech government firmly rejected Rafał Ratajczak, President of the National Chamber of Poultry Producers and Feed. As stated, the voices of unknown origin of eggs “may not apply to companies legally operating in Poland,” and trouble Czechs considered a derivative of the difficult situation on the European market in eggs, where there was a big drop in prices.

On Thursday, July 14 evening on charges of Czech authorities responded Polish Ministry of agriculture, announcing in money.pl sent mail “appropriate action towards the clarification of the situation.” Now the ministry has published an extensive commentary on the case, but still stop at the announcement “take appropriate action”, without any further details.

“The Czech Republic has been for many years one of the most important partners of Polish trade in agri-food products. ranks third among the countries to which Polish exports its products. However, from 2012 the Czech Republic regularly questioned in the media quality and safety of Polish food exports to its market “- says the Ministry of agriculture on Monday in a statement.

” It is unacceptable disseminated negative reviews of products before thorough investigation of each case by the appropriate inspections Polish, Czech and reliable determination of the facts. the transmission of information on observed irregularities to the public should be made only after a careful examination of the matter, then it is possible to transfer the facts and not suspicion and unverified information. Unfortunately, the Czech side very often do not apply to this rule, “- says the ministry directed by Christopher Jurgiel.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says that” reports supposedly Polish eggs sold in the Czech Republic were of poor quality, are unfounded. “Resort cites in this regard the results of numerous inspections Office. Food Safety and Veterinary Office of the European Commission (FVO), which” do not indicate any weaknesses in the maintenance of the animals, feeding them, and treatment. “As pointed out,” carried out in Poland last year control Inspectors FVO positively assessed the activities of the Polish Veterinary inspection in the supervision of food and marketing and use of drugs. “

the communication stated that none of the 10 notifications (RASFF) for poor quality care of eggs not related to those from Polish. Resort assured by the fact that the last checks on batches withdrawn from the Czech Republic.

According to the CSO, the Czech Republic is the fourth recipient of foreign Polish eggs after Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. According to the data KIPDiP during the first four months of 2016 years of the Polish exported 87 780 tonnes of eggs worth 86 million euros. This means that the exported by 26 percent. more than in the same period last year.

Polish food producers for a long time complaining about the harassment they face from the Czech authorities. They made even in this complaint in the European Parliament. In December, 2014 it was revealed that the Czech ministry received special instructions, which advocates a particularly precise control of food from Polish. The document was titled “Extraordinary control of safety and quality and marking of selected types of food from Polish.”

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