AreaBilateral/Multilateral

Commodity GroupMilk and dairy products

CommodityAll

Date01/04/2012

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentTechnical regulations

DescriptionRussia-Belarus-Kazakhstan: Customs Union discussed major differences on the CU technical regulation “On milk and dairy products” and agreed to exclude “vegetable-milk containing products”; tighten tolerances for antibiotic residues (effective 1 July 2015); and cancel categories of milk with establishment of maximum level of bacterial insemination and somatic cells content (effective 1 July 2017).