スイス、１５日に輸入規制撤廃　日本産食品、福島知事へ伝達

　東京電力福島第１原発事故後に導入した日本産食品の輸入規制に関し、スイスが１５日に規制を撤廃する方針であることが１日、分かった。７月３１日に在日スイス大使館（東京都港区）を訪問した内堀雅雄福島県知事に対し、アンドレアス・バオム大使が意向を伝えた。スイスなど４カ国が加盟する欧州自由貿易連合（ＥＦＴＡ）は現在、福島など１０県産の食品に放射性物質の検査証明書提出を義務付けている。
　福島県によると、内堀氏はアンドレアス大使と１５分ほど面会。その際、大使から「（７月に規制撤廃を決めた）欧州連合（ＥＵ）に続いて、スイスも８月１５日に完全撤廃する」との発言があったという。内堀氏は福島県産の桃を贈呈し、県産農林水産物をＰＲした。（2023/08/01-15:31）

Switzerland will fully lift on Aug. 15 its import restrictions on Japanese food products introduced after the 2011 nuclear accident in Japan, it was learned Tuesday.
   Swiss Ambassador to Japan Andreas Baum informed Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori of the plan when the chief of the northeastern Japan prefecture visited the Swiss Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.
   Fukushima Prefecture hosts Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, where an unprecedented triple reactor meltdown occurred following the March 2011 major earthquake and tsunami.
   Currently, the European Free Trade Association, whose four member states include Switzerland, requires the submission of radiation inspection certificates for food imported from Fukushima and nine other Japanese prefectures.
   In the meeting at the embassy, which lasted about 15 minutes, Baum told Uchibori that Switzerland will completely end its restrictions on Aug. 15, following in the footsteps of the European Union, which decided in July to fully lift its import restrictions on Japanese food, according to the Fukushima prefectural government.