EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE TRIMS COMMISSION PUSH FOR RAISING EU DAIRY PRODUCTION QUOTAS
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's agriculture committee has backed a proposal to raise European Union (EU) milk production quotas by 2% on April 1, to allow producers to meet surging demand worldwide.
However, MEPs have suggested this be voluntary for member states - not compulsory as tabled by the Commission - to allow some governments to keep their national dairy prices high if necessary. German Christian Democrat MEP Elisabeth Jeggle said she feared "a uniform increase of 2% would result in lower prices paid to producers already in difficulty, ...
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