date:Apr 25, 2014
d cargoes are intercepted, Pesonen said.
South Africa is the biggest supplier of citrus fruit to the EU from outside the bloc, shipping 471.5 million euros ($651.3 million) of oranges, grapefruits, mandarins and lemons last year, Eurostat data show. The EU intercepted 34 shipments from the country last year that contained black spot disease, the Europhyt database shows.
The high number of interceptions in 2013 demonstrates that South Africas competent authorities are incapable of carrying out