BRUSSELS TIGHTENS CONTROLS ON RUSSIAN AND BELARUS LIVESTOCK LORRIES
February 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Commission has intensified its diplomatic struggle with Russia over Moscow’s import ban on European Union (EU) pigmeat exports, tightening health controls on Russian and Belarus livestock lorries entering the EU.It has passed a regulation, using its own powers, insisting on “appropriate cleansing and disinfection of all ‘livestock vehicles’ which have transported live animals and feed and which enter the Union from Russia and Belarus…” And the new law insists that “such cleansing and disinfection is to be properly documented.”If EU ...
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