EU give yellow card on seafood imports from Thailand!!

Thailand is among 18 country that have received yellow card

from European Union (EU).EU is the main destination for

Thai seafood exports.On Tuesday ,Brussels formally

 Informed the country its decision to issue Thailand

a ‘yellow card” due to inadequate action to end what

 the EU terms “illegal ,unreported and unregulated fishing”.

 

Thailand has given six months to enact a corrective tailor

made action plan or risk on EU trade ban.

Demand from Brussels include improvements on laws and

 requlations to copw with illegal fishing,a better montering

system for boats and measures to track down the souce of

seafood product.

The foreign Ministry said Thailand wad “deeply disappoint “

by the EU decision.

 

The Prime Minister ,Gen Prayut urged cooperation from the

 

 private sector to resolve the issues identified by EU and

 

warned illegal operation of the consequences.The government

 

 prompted to call an urgent  meeting of all agencies responsible

 

 for the lucrative sector.

After the meeting ,the official were directed to report back in

 

a month with a clear plan to correct the problem highlighted

 

 by Brussels.

The Agriculture and Agricultureral cooperatives Ministry

 

was assigned to work on an action p;an that will be forwarded

 

 to the cabinet in the next two weeks.

 

The problem occurred for a long time since 2005 and the

 

yellow card is estimated before,but Thailand still can not

 

solve the problem.

The yellow card ban will not have the impact on exporting seafood

products to EU or cancel the orders but if we can not solve

 

 the problem within 60 months,at that time Thailand will

 

receive a truly ban.If the ban effective ,there will not sure

 

the EUwill cancel the ban when.The government try to solve

 

 this problem promply and I hope they can solve it otherwise

 

we might lose the EU market to the competitive country and

 

 it will be  vulnerable the seafood export of Thailand.

Last year EU as the major exported food from Thailand

represent 145,907 tons ,value at 642 million Euro or about

22,470 million baht. So if we do not want to lose the market,

there should be cooporative among every parties involve

to solve the problem rapidly and effectively.

 

Hope for not to get the ban of seafood exports from EU.