The Milk Price Battle. How to protect regional milk producers

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.

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Press Release: Committee of the Regions backs dairy farmers

The CoR’s opinion embraces the EMB’s Market Responsibility Programme

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Newsletter April online

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…

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Press release: Milk market needs crisis instrument for when quota system ends

European dairy farmers warn of a severe loss in market power and chronic price slumps

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Invitation to the press: Strong symbolic action in front of the European Parliament

Major shortcomings of post-quota system: Farmers have no market power – EMB warns about recurrent falls in prices

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EU Market outlook: moderate milk rise in 2015

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…

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Member states vote clearly in favour of staggered superlevy fines

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.…

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Newsletter March online

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…

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European Parliament: Nicholson Report on prospects for the EU dairy sector

The 11-page draft own-initiative report, published last week, seeks to assess the support measures of the dairy package and recommends solutions to address market volatility. Rapporteur James Nicholson has called on the Commission to implement more “responsive and realistic” safety net measures and review the rate of…

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Press release: Presentation of the results of the study on milk production costs in Belgium

(Brussels, 04.03.2015) Today in Brussels, the MIG and the EMB presented to the cabinet of the Federal Minister responsible for agriculture the dairy farmers’ situation and the results of the independent study on the costs of milk production in Belgium.

The study follows similar ones recognised by European bodies carried out in…

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