Briefly:
From May 2, according to the decision of the European Commission, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia undertake to cancel their unilateral measures regarding the import of agricultural products coming from Ukraine. At the same time, 4 agricultural crops - wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower - will not be exported to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia until June 5, 2023.
Ukraine's Ambassador to Ireland has urged people to stop buying Jameson whiskey in protest at the company’s decision to resume trade in Russia.
Larysa Gerasko has accused Jameson of playing a role in financing Russian aggression in Ukraine by continuing to trade in Russia.
On 26 April a bilateral conference on Ukraine’s recovery was held in Rome, attended by the Prime Ministers of the two countries, 600 Italian and 150 Ukrainian companies. Astarta was represented on the international stage by Yulia Bereshchenko, Sustainable Business Development and IR Director.
Unique plant genetic resources have been transported over a thousand kilometres from Kharkiv to the west of Ukraine.
The European Commission said on Friday it had reached a deal in principle to allow the transit of Ukrainian grain to resume through five European Union countries that had imposed restrictions.
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, and Lilia Dabija, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development of the Republic of Moldova, signed the Protocol on Amendments to the Agreement between the Governments of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova on Railway Transport.
The bans on Ukrainian grain and other food products that were unilaterally introduced by the war-torn country’s neighbours are not a viable solution, Konstantinos Baginetas, secretary general of Greece’s agriculture ministry, told EU agriculture and fisheries ministers in Luxembourg on Wednesday.
Already this week, the agrarian division of NIBULON has started the sowing campaign of spring crops.
EDA has conveyed its discontent over the fact that several Member States have, unilaterally, implemented trade restricting measures on the import of Ukrainian agri-food products, including dairy products, to the European Commission.
The recently introduced ban on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine to Poland will not threaten Astarta Holding's revenues, as the company wants to export its goods to Western European countries, representatives of the company's management board announced during an online conference.
The company also announced that it does not intend to pay dividends from the profit for 2022.