05/02/2024 (Agence Europe) – Poland has introduced stricter controls on agri-food products at the Ukrainian border to protect its internal market from an uncontrolled influx of Ukrainian products, the country’s deputy agriculture minister Michał Kołodziejczak said on Saturday 3 February. The liberalisation of trade rules between the EU and Ukraine to favour the country’s exports in July 2022 has resulted in Ukrainian foodstuffs flooding the Polish market and other neighbouring countries, leading to a fall in prices and demand for domestic production (see EUROPE 13340/7). The Polish official added that he had also analysed the transit documents for Ukrainian agricultural products and that, according to his analysis, a large proportion of the rapeseed and wheat production transiting through Poland to the Baltic States ends up back in Poland. (LC)