In an opinion compiled by the chair of the European Parliament's agriculture committee, Czesław Adam Siekierski (EPP, Poland), and adopted by 19 votes in favour and 9 against with 16 abstentions on Monday 13 March, the agriculture committee recommends mostly excluding the further annual duty-free import quotas to the EU that the European Commission proposed at the end of September 2016, in addition to what is already offered as part of the EU-Ukraine free trade area.
Following its...