date:May 28, 2012
In March, Russia introduced the ban on animal imports into the Custom Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia (CU) after Polish veterinary services removed 37 dead pigs from vehicles without notifying the Veterinary Service of Belarus or the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor). The Russian authorities considered this a gross violation of the guarantees that the EU had given Moscow in terms of monitoring the quality of exported livestock produ