Ukraine not implements conditions to return Roshen products to Russia so far - Onishchenko
Ukraine is no hurry to implement Russia's demands for the return of products of the Ukrainian confectionary producer Roshen to Russia, Head of the Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor and Russia's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said.
"The issue of supplying confectionary products from Ukraine to Russia is not a priority. I can only conclude that Ukraine did not make any official statements regarding the agreement points in the past week," Onishchenko said.
Onishchenko told Interfax on August 21 that the inspections of the Ukrainian enterprises of Roshen, willing to resume imports to Russia, would begin in autumn.
The procedure to return Roshen products to the Russian market was developed during talks with Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk in Moscow on August 16. In particular, Rospotrebnadzor experts are to inspect the four enterprises of Roshen in Ukraine. The watchdog will allow Roshen imports following the inspection but will control every batch.
It has also been agreed that special laboratories accredited will be responsible for safety of products going to Russia.
The exact timeline for the Roshen return has not been determined, Onishchenko told Interfax on August 16. "We will give timelines when basic issues - when Ukrainian laboratories will be accredited and comprehensive inspection of factories-producers will be held - will be resolved," he said.
The Russian watchdog banned in July supplies of chocolate and candies produced at four Ukrainian factories of Roshen.