Fourteen Ukrainian dairies have licenses to export products to EU

"Fourteen Ukrainian dairy producers have already obtained permits to export their products to the European Union. Acquiring the European quality certificates has confirmed conformity of Ukrainian dairy foods to international norms and standards, so we've been able to enter the EU market, and thus expand the export potential of Ukraine's agriculture," the press service quotes Kutoviy as saying.

Read alsoUkrainian dream: Feeding the worldAs of today, 277 Ukrainian enterprises are qualified to supply their products onto European markets. Further, Ukraine continues to work to ensure that more Ukrainian agricultural products could have access to the EU market, as well as exports of dairy and animal products could grow.

"Work to ensure that Ukrainian products meet European quality and safety standards continues on an ongoing basis and includes measures aimed at preventing the supply of dangerous products onto the foreign and domestic markets," press service quotes Kutoviy as saying.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine has not used quotas for duty-free supplies of dairy products since the introduction of the economic provisions of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in 2014.

The European Commission granted the first ten Ukrainian dairies access to the EU market in late December 2015. The decision came into force on January 10, 2016. However, only Milk Alliance company (Yahotyn creamery butter factory and Zolotonosha creamery butter factory) had shipped their first batches onto the European market by the middle of 2016.

Among the Ukrainian dairy producers that have licenses to export products to the EU are Lactalis (Lactalis-Mykolaiv and Molochny Dim, or Milk House), Milkiland (Nedryhayliv cheese factory and Ros enterprise's Romny dairy factory, Prometey enterprise's Mena Cheese firm), as well as Lustdorf company, Zhytomyr creamery butter factory, Gadyachsyr enterprise, Roshen's Vinnytsia dairy plant, and Cheese Club company.