Rosselkhoznadzor asked Europeans to stop delivery of flowers from the Netherlands. Dutch flower Office Supply is not prohibited, however, if the country does not cease to certify dangerous products infected Californian thrips and US miner clover, restrictions may relate to the whole of Europe.
Rosselkhoznadzor asked European countries through which the is re-Dutch flower production: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Poland – to stop the certification and delivery of cut flowers from the Netherlands. This was the ministry said.
«We have presented our arguments, referred to the documents and agreements, and for its part offered for an urgent consultation – said” Gazeta.ru “representative of Rosselkhoznadzor Yulia Trofimova. – At the time, until the stop advice and is not found an adequate solution, we asked to stop certification, and accordingly, and delivery on the territory of Russia “, – she said.
Already certified products can be exported to Russia without restrictions specified Trofimova.
On the import restrictions of flower production in the Netherlands is grown in the country, and to transit, speech does not go, but the agency may revise its decision if the phytosanitary requirements will again be violated.
«We offered to hold talks with European counterparts in order to create a monitoring system that would guarantee misses contaminated products to the EAEC, – said the deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Alexey Alekseenko agency” Interfax “. –
If our proposals are not accepted, we reserve the right to more stringent measures, including the introduction of temporary restrictions on the supply of flowers from Europe. ” The official did not rule out that the ban can touch and EU countries, which do not certify the Dutch colors.
According to the phytosanitary services in Europe, is “an acute systemic problem with the phytosanitary security” exported flower production : Only in the last three months of Rosselkhoznadzor identified 324 contaminated batch of cut flowers.
Among the pests were identified western (Californian) flower thrips, chrysanthemum white rust, tobacco whitefly and US miner clover. In 58% of cases, quarantine objects were found in the flowers grown in the Netherlands, said the agency.
Rosselkhoznadzor elicited quarantine facilities in flower production from the Netherlands at the beginning of the year, not only cut, but and potted flowers.
For example, in February of Chuvashia in the party colors of the Netherlands identified a western flower thrips. In March, the Samara branch of the service has already stated about the discovery in the Dutch flower products imported from the Czech Republic, the same quarantine pests. “Flowers seemingly looked stale, inflorescences were povyadshimi and on the leaves could be seen foreign objects like insect larvae. In this case, the decision was made about the destruction of chrysanthemums by burning, “- said the agency. In April, in Chelyabinsk was burned Party infested potted plants.
However, the Netherlands still I can not from Russia related notifications, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Thierry Van Esa. “The authorities of the Netherlands had not been informed by the Russian authorities of any phytosanitary problems with the Dutch flowers no ban,” – he said.
But the country has already expressed the view that the root of possible sanctions lies in the flower political reasons. For example, the largest group of Dutch agribusiness LTO Nederland associates a possible ban on imports of flowers in Russia with the position of the Netherlands to investigate the crash of the Boeing Malaysian skies over Ukraine. “The reasons for the ban – this is politics. Tribunal (to investigate the collapse of Boeing. – «Times”) may be the real reason, “- said a company spokesman Martin Lezeman. He is convinced that the claims of Rosselkhoznadzor for “microorganisms pests” – is nothing more than a search for a reason for the ban of imports of flowers from the Netherlands.
Russia – a major consumer of Dutch flower production. During 2014 in Russia came to 30.7 thousand. Tons of cut plants in the amount of $ 225.4 million. For the current year, according to Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia imported about 8 thousand. Tons of flowers grown in the Netherlands.
At the same time, despite the fact that the restrictions on the import of flowers have not yet been introduced themselves talk of possible innovations prevent domestic business, as the rules of the game may change at any time. As said “Gazeta.ru” head of the press service of the company “Florist.ru” Waist Akhmetov, there is no clear explanation of position Rosselkhoznadzor, “the Russian flower market will be in limbo.” 
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