The European Union has lifted the import restrictions it imposed on food items from Japan following the nuclear accident at Fukushima.
Announcing the decision at the EU-Japan Summit in Brussels, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the Commission is lifting the import restrictions on the basis of positive results from controls done on the products by the Japanese authorities and the Member States.
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