Poultry trade with Ukraine

3.4.2018

Question for written answer E-001977-18
to the Commission
Rule 130
Bas Belder (ECR)

The DCFTA stipulated that Ukraine must raise its animal welfare standards to European level. Since then, to what extent has Ukraine taken measures to bring animal welfare on its own territory in line with European standards?

Has the Commission scheduled an audit or carried out recent audits to investigate and assess the sanitary and phytosanitary standards of Ukrainian poultry farming?

How much support has been given via European funds, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the European Investment Bank to Ukrainian agro-food companies, and how much of it went to Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP)?