Polish Meat Ban Self-inflicted
Warsaw, Poland December 9, 2006. The ban on exporting Polish meat to Russia has received a lot of attention since Poland vetoed the treaty between Russia and the European Union. Poland has been crying foul on the part of Russia but behind the scenes commits fouls of its own. See Veto
Over the past year there have been reports of Poland being a transshipping point for meat coming in from India and China. The meat comes into Poland and is given proper veterinary certificates and approvals in order to be exported to Russia and Ukraine.
Russia's Putin even commented on it when discussing the current row. He explicitly said the problem was not with Polish meat but with meat that was being shipped through Poland. See Meat imported via Poland
Poland has not yet been able to stop the trade in the low standard meat.
It would appear that the real problem is not Russia.
It would appear that the real problem is that Poland has not taken the necessary steps to clean up its own act and stop the transshipment of substandard meat to Russia and Ukraine.
It would appear that both Russia and Ukraine are well within their rights to ban all meat exports until Poland clamps down on the criminal activities that it is ignoring.
It would seem that Poland's Ministry of Agriculture should be able to go back the delivery chain and find of the source of a bad shipment of meat such as the one that recently went to Ukraine. See Transshipped Meat
Poland has an anti-corruption office that perhaps should be looking into this as a high priority item. And maybe it should be trying to find out why the Ministry of Agriculture can't solve the problem.
Someone at a fairly high level has to be making some money. There should be a paper trail.
As long as Poland ignores the problem and continues to complain, one would expect that Russia and Ukraine can see that Poland is not serious about cleaning up its own act and they can be expected to keep the pressure on Poland to stop the illegal trade.
Likewise the people in the EU may voice support for Poland, but...
Poland is the problem and not part of the solution.
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