ＥＵ、年内にも輸入規制緩和へ＝福島・宮城県産などの食品

　欧州連合（ＥＵ）が、東京電力福島第１原発事故以来実施している福島県や宮城県などの被災地やその周辺の農林水産物に対する輸入規制を年内にも緩和する方針であることが７日、分かった。食品の安全性が認められた形で、規制の全面撤廃にまた一歩近づく。
　安倍晋三首相が９月、ＥＵのユンケル欧州委員長と会談した際に緩和の見通しを伝えられた。
　農林水産省によると、ＥＵ内部の手続きが済み次第、放射性物質の検査証明書の添付が必要なくなる。対象は福島県の大豆、ゼンマイなど山菜の一部、宮城、群馬、茨城各県の水産物、長野、新潟両県のキノコ類など。岩手、千葉、栃木の３県についてはすべての食品への規制を撤廃する。福島県の一部の水産物や、複数県のキノコ類、一部山菜などへの規制は残る。（2019/10/07-15:45）

The European Union plans to relax by the end of this year its import restrictions on some Japanese foods that were introduced after the March 2011 accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station, it was learned Monday.
   European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker explained the planned easing to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when they met last month, informed sources said.
   Once the EU completes its internal procedures on the easing, exporters of Japanese foods subject to the import restrictions will no longer be required to submit certificates of radiation checks, according to the Japanese agriculture ministry.
   Items to be covered by the easing will include soybeans and some wild vegetables from the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, home to the tsunami-stricken TEPCO plant, fishery products from Miyagi, Gunma and Ibaraki prefectures, and mushrooms from Nagano and Niigata prefectures, the sources said.
   The EU is slated to remove its import restrictions on all food items from Iwate, Chiba and Tochigi prefectures. But restrictions will remain on some fishery products from Fukushima, and mushrooms and some wild vegetables from some prefectures, according to the sources.