The government has approved a list of goods prohibited for import from Western countries. The list has remained virtually unchanged - meat, poultry, fish, and dairy products remain on it. The embargo did not affect biomaterials

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved the list of goods that are subject to the food embargo imposed by the Russian authorities in response to Western sanctions, an RBC correspondent reports. Opening a government meeting on Thursday, Medvedev said that the list “does not differ from what it was, with the exception of certain items.”

The document remains “livestock products, cattle meat, pork, edible by-products, fish and crustaceans.” Medvedev also named among the “prohibited” goods “milk and dairy products, vegetables, sausages, etc.”

As expected, the changes affected biomaterials, fry and larvae for fish and oyster farming. In the new list, restrictions do not apply to them.

At the meeting, Medvedev emphasized that the “banned” list could be changed depending on how Russia’s relations with Western countries develop. The Prime Minister also drew the attention of all those responsible for working on the list “to be more attentive to their responsibilities and not to comment on it before the document is released, because this confuses the market.”

He also pointed out that it was not Moscow that started this sanctions confrontation and “mutual efforts are needed to end it.” “Unfortunately, we do not see any positive changes from these states. Our actions are driven primarily by economic rather than political considerations,” he said.

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that the new list would not include a ban on biomaterials It became known in early June . Medvedev himself turned to the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev with a request to check whether there are food biological materials that are subject to the import ban, but are not produced in Russia itself. “Look, if there is still something left that we cannot provide ourselves with, I mean biological materials, then we will lift the embargo on it,” Medvedev said while visiting the exhibition of the All-Russian Food Security Forum.

As RBC previously reported , the government's next measure may be to tighten the import standards for lactose-free products. According to government sources, in order to supply lactose-free cheese or yoghurt from Europe to Russia, the product will need to be registered as a therapeutic and prophylactic product, justifying the presence of such properties. The fact that lactose-free dairy products will be imported into Russia only on the basis of special registration was announced by relevant Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Medvedev approved a new list of prohibited goods from the EU and the USA