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Dear Vice-President Timmermans, dear Commissioners Kyriakides and Wojciechowski,
We are writing to you in reaction to the attempt of severable trade associations to take advantage of the terrible Ukrainian war to challenge the existing EU food and feed safety standards. In a letter from 1st of March (cf. annex), several importers have called for a temporary waiving of EU Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for pesticides in imported food products and feeds, which would allow commodities that do not comply with EU safety standards to access the European market for six months. Such measures would allegedly be required for the EU to address an expected shortage of animal feed in the light of the war in Ukraine, argue these actors.