At the last meeting of the Milk Market Observatory on 29 April, DG AGRI officials confirmed that European dairy prices have fallen slightly following the unexpected rebound in the 1st quarter of 2015.
Production was down by 1% in the first two months of the year due to a drop in output in 19 Member States. Buyers are holding…
The Association of Milk Producers in the Po Valley (APL - Associazione Produttori Latte della Pianura Padana) will be exhibiting dairy products, sausages and more goods from their own farms together with Copagri at EXPO in Milan. For six months - from May to October 2015 - buyers from all over the world will have the…
An opinion adopted by the Committee of the Regions asks the EU to introduce new safeguards for milk producers / France 3 documentary by Stéphanie Vinot and Eric Taxil.
The CoR’s opinion embraces the EMB’s Market Responsibility Programme
The European milk market has had no working safety net since 1 April. That is why in our EMB campaign of action on 31 March – the last day of the quota system – we flew the flags of the 28 EU member states at half mast. Just to make one thing clear: in no way do we mourn the passing of the quotas; instead we regret the lack of a…
European dairy farmers warn of a severe loss in market power and chronic price slumps
Major shortcomings of post-quota system: Farmers have no market power – EMB warns about recurrent falls in prices
Milk production is expected to increase significantly across the EU in the years following the removal of the quota system, but in 2015, an increase of just 1% is expected, according to the Commission’s latest short-term market outlook. The supply increase is expected to be higher in countries seeing an expansion of the dairy…
Today, EU Member States clearly voted in favour of the Commission’s proposal to stagger the superlevy fines in three equal interest-free instalments. Even the more liberal-minded countries such as the UK and Sweden were in favour of the proposal. Only three countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) voted against.…
In just a few weeks the time will finally have come. The limit on milk volumes that started back in 1984 is being abolished. When the quota system was introduced over 30 years ago it had two aims:
Firstly the market organisation was to be affordable again. For that it was essential to get rid of the EU milk lakes and butter…
