After protests by Polish farmers against the free import of Ukrainian grain, which distorted the market, the Warsaw government will create an investigative commission to investigate possible fraud in import operations, DPA reported on Thursday, citing Agerpres.

In addition to other violations, this commission will investigate cases of importation of Ukrainian grain with falsified markings, Polish Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro said. Such frauds endanger Poland’s food security and sovereignty, he warned, accusing the European Commission of opening the EU market to Ukrainian grain, “even though it knew what consequences it would have for neighboring states, especially for Poland.”

Poland’s new agriculture minister, Robert Telus, said on Tuesday that it would be “very difficult” to convince the European Commission to reimpose tariffs on Ukrainian grain imports, which Poland had suspended in an agreement with Ukraine to quell anger. are restored, the Polish authorities will monitor them “very carefully”.

To help Ukraine after Russia launched a war against the country last February, the EU suspended customs duties and other trade defense measures applied to Ukrainian grain imports, a measure recently extended by the European Commission until June 2024. But the free entry of grain to Ukrainians, especially in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, distorted the market due to oversupply and falling prices.

Groups of Polish farmers resorted to protest actions against the entry into the country of cheaper Ukrainian grain, but which “does not have the density and quality” required from local producers. Large volumes of Ukrainian grain entered the market of EU countries both due to its opening, agreed by the bloc of the community, and due to logistical blockages, due to which supplies of Ukrainian grain, originally intended for third countries, remained on the markets of Central and Eastern European countries.