Meals containing substances, equivalent to pesticides, banned by the EU will not be allowed to enter France.
Specifically, any meals containing residues of herbicides and fungicides equivalent to mancozeb, glufosinate, thiophanate-methyl, and carbendazim will probably be banned from the nation, France’s Prime Minister, Sebastien Lecornu, introduced on Monday. A decree will probably be issued shortly.
Affected merchandise embrace mangoes, avocados, guavas, grapes, citrus fruits and apples. These merchandise, when imported from territories equivalent to South America, will not be allowed to enter France, defined Lecornu.
Enhanced checks will probably be carried out on produce to make sure that it complies with these requirements.
The measure is “a primary step to guard our provide chains and our customers and to struggle in opposition to unfair competitors, an actual subject of justice and equity for our farmers,” mentioned Lecornu.
France has been one of many strongest critics of the EU-Mercosur deal, a commerce deal between the EU and international locations within the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay).
As soon as the deal is signed, tariff limitations between the 2 blocs will probably be tremendously diminished, prompting considerations that French farmers will expertise unfair competitors from international locations with completely different agricultural requirements. Measures have been launched into the settlement to mitigate these dangers.
