Ukraine plans to again invest specialists of Russia's Rospotrebnadzor to check the production facilities of the Roshen Corporation.

"We'll invite representatives of Rospotrebnadzor and monitor so that they arrive and presented check acts," Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk told reporters on Tuesday, November 5.

He said that he had held negotiations with owners of Roshen and the Association of Confectionary Producers of Ukraine and a decision to wait a response from Rospotrebnadzor until next Friday, November 8, was made, and if there were no response, Ukraine would call an extraordinary meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva.

"We'll appeal to WTO headquarters so that they influence the process and even hold an extraordinary meeting on the issue, as we're dealing with a member of the WTO," he said.

As reported, Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Ihor Prasolov said that Ukraine has appealed to the WTO with a request to consider the problem with the protection of national confectioners' interests.

Late last month, Roshen asked the Economic Development and Trade Ministry to initiate a WTO inquiry into the ban.

In July 2013, Russia's Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance (Rospotrebnadzor), a sanitary watchdog, suspended imports of chocolates made at four Roshen factories because of their allegedly inadequate quality.