The Croatian Minister of Agriculture, Tomislav Tolushic, withdrew his decision for increasing the compensation for the phytosanitary inspection of the fruits and vegetables that are imported into Croatia from Macedonia, Serbia, BiH and Montenegro, “T-Portal” reports.
With it, the price for the control of a product will be 90 Croatian Kuna (12 euro) as it was previously, instead of 2000 Croatian Kuna (274 euros) per product, as predicted by the new Rule-book that was passed on July the 15th.
Macedonian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Economy, Ljupco Nikolovski, together with his colleagues from other countries has reacted to Tolušić . A day before yesterday, both ministers had a telephone talk and Nikolovski has maintained constant contacts with ministers from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Montenegro, after the meeting that took place in Sarajevo, the day before.
T-Portal reports that at the Croatian ministry there were talks about increasing the inspection to an amount of 750 Croatian Kuna i.e. 100 euros, which was accepted by Serbia and BiH, but they changed their minds soon since the exporting of Croatian firms in other countries would become more expensive.
The rise in prices that are planned in the new Croatian rule book referred only to countries that are not EU members, while for countries in the EU, the old prices for phytosanitary control have remained the same.