Kosovo — Fruits and Vegetables
Kosovo received 2 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issue is nickel. The list below gives each of these 3 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 1 carries the laboratory result and 3 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
- What happened to rejected consignments, last 3 years
- Destroyed: 50%; Re-dispatched: 50%. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 1 | — | — | — |
| Peppers & Chilies | 1 | — | — | nickel |
"1 rejection per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent rejections
- 2026.9196 Absence of health guarantees Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched.
- 2026.8442 High content of nickel in peppers from Kosovo Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 1,96 (limit 0,4 mg/kg - ppm). nickel
- 2021.5363 rejection - lack of official certification during documentary check Notified by Hungary. Destroyed.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 2 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Kosovo found after entering the EU — 2 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: official control on the market 100%. 2 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.8871 info: attentionChlorpyrifos in sliced gherkins Notified by Slovenia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,016 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2022.1758 info: attentionundeclared and not allowed allergen sulphur dioxide in pickled Babur peppers with yoghurt Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 610 (limit unauthorized in this product category null). sulphite
Data and downloads
Download all 5 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
The file holds entries up to 2026-10-16. To get new ones for Kosovo by email, watch Kosovo.