DAIRY REFORM ROW
December 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission proposals to reform the EU's dairy common market organisation have been attacked by MEP's and industry representatives at a European Parliament agriculture committee hearing. Speakers claimed that the proposed additional one per-cent increase in the milk quota and 28 per-cent cut in dairy intervention prices "would undermine the quota system, flood the market and drive many farmers to the wall."
EUROPEAN Commission proposals to reform the EU's dairy common market organisation have been attacked by MEP's and industry representatives at a European Parliament agriculture committee hearing. Speakers claimed that the proposed additional one per-cent increase in the milk quota and 28 per-cent cut in dairy intervention prices "would undermine the quota system, flood the market and drive many farmers to the wall."
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