The European Parliament approved further liberalization of exports of Moldovan agricultural products to the EU, in particular, doubling the quotas for duty-free supplies to the EU of 7 categories of agricultural products from Moldova.
Member of the European Parliament, chairman of the European Parliament delegation to the Parliamentary Committee on the Association of the European Union - Moldova Siegfried Muresan wrote about this on his page on the social network. He noted that the relevant proposal of the European Commission was supported by a broad majority in the European Parliament. 572 MEPs voted in favor, 28 voted against, with 32 abstentions. We are talking about doubling for a period of 1 year duty-free export quotas for 7 categories of agricultural products from Moldova, for which tariff quotas are still applied when entering the EU market. Siegfried Murešan recalled that the war in Ukraine had seriously affected Moldovan farmers, who can no longer export their products to eastern countries. “Therefore, I have repeatedly called on the European Parliament to liberalize the export of agricultural products from Moldova to the EU market. I asked for this, including in the resolution on Moldova, which the European Parliament adopted on May 5. At the beginning of June, the European Commission proposed doubling export quotas (i.e., the volume of goods on which customs duties are not applied) for seven categories of Moldovan goods for which tariff quotas are still applied (tomatoes, garlic, table grapes, apples, cherries, plums and grape juice). Of these, Moldova exported plums and grapes in large quantities to Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. This proposal was approved today by the European Parliament at the plenary session,” wrote Siegfried Murešan. He stressed that today's vote demonstrated the solidarity of the European Parliament with farmers and all citizens of Moldova. “The European Union has long been Moldova's main trading partner. Almost two thirds of Moldovan exports go to the European market. I want the measure adopted today not to be temporary, but to become a new step towards Moldova's integration into the single European market,” Mureşan said. As InfoMarket agency reported earlier, it is planned that the quotas for duty-free export of Moldova to the EU will increase from 15,000 to 40,000 tons of plums, from 20,000 to 58,000 tons of grapes, and from 40,000 to 80,000 tons of apples, tomatoes - from 2 thousand to 4 thousand tons, garlic - from 220 to 440 tons, cherries - from 1.5 thousand to 3 thousand tons, and grape juice - from 0.5 thousand to 1 thousand tons. // 05.07.2022 — InfoMarket
