Question 14324 — breeding

Summary

Ms Mathilde Paris alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs about the new threat to the French poultry industry due to the exemption from customs duties for imports of Ukrainian poultry. Indeed, the European Commission has decided to open the European market to imports of industrial poultry from Ukraine with total exemption from customs duties. Supporting the continuity of exports from a country at war is certainly legitimate, but its achievement to the detriment of French and European sectors of activity already in difficulty, such as the poultry sector, remains problematic. Furthermore, gallinaceae imported from Ukraine do not meet the standards or agricultural and food values ​​in force in the European Union, thus creating a real distortion in the price and quality of poultry. Despite the warnings from the French inter-professional association of the poultry sector, Anvol (National Inter-professional Broiler Poultry Association), the Government did not oppose the renewal of the agreement in June 2023 and the activation of the safeguard clause - which can be used if one of the States considers that its interests are threatened - does not seem to be on the agenda. Thus, the French poultry industry is threatened by massive imports of Ukrainian poultry. Between January and March 2023, imports of Ukrainian chicken into the European Union increased by 201%, which represents 25,000 tonnes of poultry per month and as much market loss for intra-European poultry producers. In France, there are +122% imports of Ukrainian gallinaceae since April 2022. After a food crisis linked to the covid-19 pandemic then a new crisis due to avian flu, the renewal of these customs duty exemption agreements for Ukrainian poultry is a new blow for French poultry producers. In view of all these considerations, she alerts him to the real threat of this agreement for French poultry producers and asks him what measures he intends to put in place in order to defend agricultural sovereignty. French and to support the farmers of France, already in difficulty.

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