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The aim of these cooperation actions is to speed up and provide more safety to the bilateral trade operations, because it validates the health status of the goods automatically and it eliminates the submission of the original document by the importer.

Polish pork exports increased 8% in the first quarter of the year.

Pigmeat production is expected to increase further in 2015, driven by low feed prices and a slightly higher breeding sows herd.

Updated figures on trade of agri-food products between the European Union and the rest of the world in 2014 show that exports increased by 1.6% compared with 2013.

The strongest fall in imports during 2014 has been pig meat (41% in volume terms).

Pigmeat production is expected to grow to 4.3 Mt (carcass weight equivalent) in 2024.

According to the data by the Korea Customs Service (KCS), imports reached 39,000 tons in April, up 24.1 percent from 32,000 tons a year earlier.

The move is a direct response to the ecomnomic sanctions imposed by the EU to Moscow this week, until 31 January 2016, for its role in the Ukraine crisis.

The ban englobes the whole of Lithuania.

The aim is to implement a pilot test of the Inspection Service Comprehensive System (SISI), created to strengthen the procedures that allow to reduce the risk regarding the entrance of pests and quarantine diseases in Mexico.

The comercial food and agriculture products surplus reached a new historical record by exceeding USD1,109 million in the first triannual of 2015.

According to Medvedev, Russia introduced the embargo for a year, that is, until August 8, 2015. Russian subsequent actions will depend on what partners choose to do.

Egypt joins, together with Macedonia and Singapore, the countries that allow the importation of Polish pork after the detection of African swine fever in the first three countries mentioned.

Martin Schulz decided to refer the 116 amendments tabled to the report back to the Committee on International Trade, for consideration and a vote on whether they are to be put to a plenary vote.

Mexico became one of the first countries in the world to be declared free of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) by the World Organisation for Animal Health (Office International des Epizooties [OIE] in French).