Ukraine determined to set up all EU agrarian institutions - deputy minister

MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - In order to join the European Union, Ukraine will have to set up institutions that have functioned in EU countries for years, Ukrainian Deputy Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Markiyan Dmitrasevich said.

"We have to enhance our institutional capability. We should analyze our policy, set up institutions that are functioning in all of the EU countries, and implement all of this in Ukraine," Ukrainian media quoted Dmitrasevich as saying in a statement circulated by the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.

Ukraine has the State Agrarian Register functioning since 2022, but it will also have to establish other institutions functioning in EU countries, Dmitrasevich said. These include the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS), which should help analyze and monitor effects of government measures in the agricultural sector; the Land-Parcel Identification System (LPIS); the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), which ensures a systematic analysis of applications for support; and the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) database and a payment agency, whose establishment is an essential precondition for using funds earmarked by the EU for pursuing a common agrarian policy, he said.