Source: European Parliament
Priority question for written answer P-001903/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Isabella Lövin (Verts/ALE)
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, seafood products have only been included in the last 16 sanction packages in a marginal way, with the products chosen being economically insignificant. However, reports by the European Market Observatory for fisheries and aquaculture products show that in 2023, seafood products worth more than EUR 800 million were imported from the Russian Federation, with some individual species comprising 25 % of the imported volume (e.g. cod and Alaska pollock). In 2024, these values fell only slightly, when EU imports constituted almost 180 000 tonnes with a value of more than EUR 700 million. With the new sanctions package being proposed, we now have an opportunity to address this issue. It is unreasonable that these products are exempted, and we are convinced that EU citizens would not want the fish they eat to come from Russia.
Questions:
- 1.Will the Commission include a more significant amount of seafood products in the upcoming 17th sanctions package?
- 2.Will the Commission place tariffs on imports of seafood products?
- 3.What will the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy do to ensure this issue is addressed?
Submitted: 13.5.2025