In the spirit of the traditionally good cooperation of the Visegrad Group the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia joined the initiative as well as other Member States from all over Europe.
Zsolt Feldman, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture responsible for agricultural economy definitely stood up for the interests of national honey producers. In order to more effectively filter out low-quality, often adulterated imported products he called for greater involvement of the European Commission. The Deputy State Secretary emphasized that the processing of shoddy products “results in an unreal competitive market situation for those who produce high quality products at a higher cost”.
The Hungarian initiative urges for stricter rules of labelling of origin and provenance at EU level in order to protect the Hungarian honey production which has a long tradition.
The text of the initiative is available on the following link.
