Rebounding eastern exports spur Poland and Ukraine to create food standards

Poland and Ukraine are planning to create a team of experts to establish a set of principles on mutual acceptance of food certificates. "After some problems with payments in 1998 we had to suspend our exports to Ukraine. Now, we are again interested in exporting our goods to Ukraine and we are planning to return to its market," said Andrzej Bartoszuk from the commercial department of a confectionary. Poland cares about the further development of agricultural and food exports to Ukraine since that market is one of few where Poland has a positive balance of trade. (Parkiet, page 7) A.Z.