The Ukrainian confectionery company Roshen will be cleared to export candies and chocolates to the Russian market, Interfax was told at the Russian health and consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.

Rospotrebnadzor on Tuesday met with Ukrainian state consumer rights inspectors.

"Under the agreements reached, measures will be taken to bring the current standards into line with modern requirements and to guarantee laboratory control over each batch at accredited laboratories, which will help start the procedure of gradual resumption of Roshen products' deliveries to the Russian market," Rospotrebnadzor said.

The Russian sanitary service said that the issue of quality and safety of products of Roshen Corporation was discussed as a part of the memorandum of understanding signed by Rospotrebnadzor and the State Inspectorate for Protection of Consumer rights of Ukraine on cooperation in protection of consumer rights in September 2012.

"An agreement to hold joint consultations on the provision of quality and safety of products of Ukrainian producers with arrival of Russian experts to Ukraine was reached," Rospotrebnadzor said.

In July this year, Rospotrebnadzor banned the supply to Russia of chocolate and sweets made at four Ukrainian factories of Roshen because of complaints about the quality of produce. Roshen is owned by Petro Poroshenko, a leading independent politician in Ukraine.

In mid-August, Rospotrebnadzor Chief Gennady Onishchenko and Ukrainian Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk agreed during talks in Moscow on a mechanism to return Roshen products to the Russian market.

Roshen, a leading confectionary producer in Ukraine, operates confectionery factories in Kyiv, Mariupol, Kremenchuk and Vinnytsia, the dairy producer Bershadmoloko. It also runs confectionary facilities in Klaipeda (Lithuania), Lipetsk (Russia), and Bonbonetti Choco (Hungary).

The company produces around 200 types of products. Its total annual production volume is up to 410,000 tonnes.