KYPRIANOU – RUSSIA
February 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) health and consumer protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has become the first member of the new European Commission to visit Russia, to cement last year's agreement on sanitary regulations. Moscow had temporarily banned EU meat exports over a lack of harmonisation regarding European veterinary certificates, a dispute that was eventually solved.
EUROPEAN Union (EU) health and consumer protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has become the first member of the new European Commission to visit Russia, to cement last year's agreement on sanitary regulations. Moscow had temporarily banned EU meat exports over a lack of harmonisation regarding European veterinary certificates, a dispute that was eventually solved.
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