According to Ukrainian News Agency, several inspectors from the European Commission's Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection have begun inspecting five poultry farms in Ukraine with the aim of possibly allowing them to export their products to the European Union. Agrarian Policy Minister Yurii Melnyk announced that ten enterprises applied for such inspectors: according to him, the inspectors are controlling the Havrylivski Kurchata, Druzhba Narodiv, the Kaniv poultry farm, the Ukrainian poultry farm, and a poultry farm in the Vasylkivskyi district of the Kyiv region.
Melnyk further stated that, if all the five poultry farms that are being inspected are allowed to export their products to the EU, the remaining five that applied for inspection but are not being inspected would also be able to export their products to the European Union.
The State Committee for Veterinary Medicine hopes that export of poultry meat and eggs to the European Union will begin in 2010.
