The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development provides a list of companies importing grain from Ukraine. The list has no less than 62 pages. This is the aftermath of the grain scandal.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development published on its website a list of companies importing grain from Ukraine.
list of companies
The list has 62 pages, contains company names and can be downloaded as a file. For the time being, there is no detailed information about the amount of grain or dates imported.
– I support the publication of lists of companies that made money by importing grain from Ukraine. It is a matter of days when these lists will be announced – said Robert Telus, who replaced Henryk Kowalczyk at the Ministry of Agriculture, on RMF FM in April.
On Monday, Anna Gembicka was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the new government of Mateusz Morawiecki.
The grain scandal
From June 1, 2022, grain from international companies based in Ukraine could be imported into the territory of the European Union without any tariff or non-tariff restrictions under the so-called solidarity corridors. It soon became apparent that the grain – most of which would only be transported via Poland – in practice remained in Polish warehouses and created unfair competition for Polish farmers. Against this background, a dispute arose between Kiev and Warsaw, as the Polish side decided – albeit only in April 2023 – to impose and then, contrary to Brussels’ position, extend the embargo on some Ukrainian products.
Volodymyr Zelensky then suggested that the governments of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary were indirectly supporting the regime of President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Poland at the World Trade Organization.
Report of the Supreme Court of Audit
The government’s actions were unreliable, ineffective and late, and the Minister of Agriculture contributed to market chaos, the Supreme Court of Audit said in its report on the grain scandal.
For example, the Supreme Court’s report shows that the competent state authorities have failed to protect Polish farmers from the consequences of uncontrolled grain imports from Ukraine. In the case of wheat, imports increased by as much as 16.8 thousand tons in 2022. per cent
NIK assessed that “the huge inflows contributed to a decline in the profitability of Polish agricultural producers and an increase in grain stocks: from 3.8 million tons in mid-2021 to 9.7 million tons in mid-2023.”
According to the Supreme Court of Audit, the then Minister of Agriculture, Henryk Kowalczyk, made an important contribution to the negative development of the situation.
‘The government’s measures to save the situation came dramatically late. The grain scandal was also intended to demonstrate that no instruments had been developed to counter the destabilization of the agricultural market. policies, devoid of planning and market analysis, lacked long-term and forward-looking actions,” it wrote.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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