The European Commission has asked European Union (EU) ministers to open three new large food import quotas from New Zealand, accounting for previous commitments made by the ten eastern and southern member states that joined the EU last May.
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These include an additional 1,154 tonnes (carcass weight) of sheep meat (fresh, chilled or frozen); 735 tonnes of 80-82% fat content butter; and an extra 1,000 tonnes carefully defined “high quality beef” – vacuum packed premium beef cuts derived from exclusively pasture-grazed bovine animals, and other criteria.
New Zealand exporters would be able to sell these products across the EU, rather than, as before, in specific new EU member countries.
