EU to ban dairy products from over the pre-1967 lines as of January

[Jefferson23]

Moo

The European Union will no longer accept dairy exports from West Bank settlements beginning in January.

The new ban is the result of a small technicality in EU legislation with regard to inspection of the products, which was applied to Israel for the first time this year.

The European Commission no longer recognizes the authority of inspection agencies over the pre-1967 lines, and without such an inspection the dairy products from those areas of the country, including east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, cannot be sold in the EU.

European countries in the last few years have grown increasingly vocal about their opposition to West Bank settlements, which they consider illegal, but there is no official boycott of its exports.


http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/EU-to-ban-dairy-products-from-over-the-pre-1967-lines-as-of-January-37850

[oberliner]

1. Israel already stopped exported such products in August

Israel ends export to EU of settler dairy, poultry produce

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-ends-export-eu-settler-dairy-poultry-produce-210433715.html

[Carlos Rodrigez]

2. All symbolism.

As a practical matter, this boycott is economically meaningless.