Bosnia and Herzegovina: EU Annual Report Finds BiH Makes Little Progress in Agriculture

The European Commission released its Progress Report on BiH’s pre-accession efforts and concluded that substantial work remains to be done in the fields of agriculture and rural development, food safety, veterinary, phytosanitary policy, and fisheries. BiH has yet to adopt a rural development strategy and it needs to improve its agricultural statistics and information system. Implementation of the food safety and veterinary Acquis also has been unsatisfactory. In particular, BiH’s official control capacity needs to be improved. The EU audit of BiH’s dairy sector found that insufficient progress has been made, thus further postponing granting access to BiH for export of milk to the EU market. The EU audit of plant health controls in the potato sector was generally positive. The overall lack of progress in the food safety area continues to adversely affect BiH’s trade in agricultural products with the EU.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: EU Annual Report Finds BiH Makes Little Progress in Agriculture