date:Feb 12, 2019
agreement on mutual recognition. Such an agreement would lead to even more unfair competition from the bananas from third countries, as their organic producers are allowed to use substances that are currently banned even for conventional banana crops in Europe.
Regarding the sanitary and phytosanitary measures, the Andean countries also expressed their concern about the possible effects on their export products of the European regulations on maximum residue limits, new foods and endocrine disru