asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by how much the agricultural industries of each EEC country have contributed to the current stocks of agricultural products held or financed by the EEC.
The current level of stocks held by each member State, based on recent information, is as shown in the table. In some cases, the figures include commodities originating in one member State but held in intervention stores by another. It is not possible to show these separately.
| AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS HELD IN INTERVENTION AND PRIVATE STORAGE SCHEMES (FEOGA AIDED) | ||||||||||
Product
| … | Belgium
| Denmark
| France
| Germany
| Italy
| Ireland
| Luxembourg
| Netherlands
| United Kingdom
|
| Butter (tonnes) | … | 33,502 | 13,180 | 89,405 | 179,933 | 210 | 32,045 | 2,976 | 81,486 | 69,318 |
| SMP (tonnes) | … | 87,351 | 28,395 | 32,890 | 537,374 | 6,230 | 38,483 | 5,991 | 53,476 | 73,888 |
| Cheese (tonnes) | … | — | — | 17,990 | — | 37,934 | — | — | — | — |
| Beef (tonnes) | … | 10 | 27,497 | — | 90,661 | 32,150 | 49,661 | — | 11,195 | 14,415 |
| Table Wine ('000 hl) | … | — | — | 3,463 | 102 | 3,025 | — | 11 | — | — |
| Grape Must ('000 hl) | … | — | — | 36 | 3 | 155 | — | — | — | — |
| Concentrated Grape Must ('000 hl) | … | — | — | 16 | — | 25 | — | — | — | — |
| Breadmaking Wheat (tonnes) | … | — | 25,196 | — | 621,303 | 171,079 | — | 3,082 | — | — |
| Barley (tonnes) | … | — | 8,651 | — | 127,201 | — | — | — | — | 20,764 |
| Rye (tonnes) | … | — | 33,698 | — | 479,873 | — | — | 2,783 | — | — |
| Durum (tonnes) | … | — | — | — | — | 69,864 | — | — | — | — |
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report a table similar to that published on 16th June 1977 showing the EEC appropriations in respect of public and private storage for
| EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL GUIDANCE AND GUARANTEE FUND—GUARANTEE SECTION 1977 EXPENDITURE AND 1978 APPROPRIATIONS IN RESPECT OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STORAGE | |||||
| Commodity | Chapter | Article or Item | Heading | 1977 Expenditure (MUA) | 1978 Appropriations (MEUA) |
| Cereals | 60 | 6015 | Buying in and subsequent operations | 21·1 | 93·0 |
| Rice | 61 | 611* | Intervention in respect of rice | 0·1 | 1·0 |
| Milk and Milk | 62 | 6213 | Private storage (of skimmed milk) | — | Token entry |
| Products. | 6214 | Public storage and special disposal measures (in relation to skimmed milk) | 250·1 | 391·0 | |
| 6220 | Private storage (of butter and cream) | 36·4 | 42·0 | ||
| 6221 | Public storage and special measures for the disposal of public stocks of butter | 186·5 | 297·8 | ||
| 6230 | Storage of cheese | 14·9 | 10·0 | ||
| 487·9 | 740·8 | ||||
| Oils and Fats | 63 | 6311 | Storage (of olive oil) | 9·2 | 15·0 |
| 6331 | Storage (of colza, rape and sunflower seeds) | — | 1·0 | ||
| 9·2 | 16·0 | ||||
| Sugar | 64 | 6413 | Public storage | 1·6 | 2·0 |
| Beef and Veal | 65 | 6510 | Private storage | 61·8 | 33·0 |
| 6511 | Public storage | 177·8 | 218·3 | ||
| 239·6 | 251·3 | ||||
| Pigmeat | 66 | 661* | Intervention in respect of pigmeat | 6·9 | 18·0 |
| Wine | 69 | 6910 | Aid for private storage | 36·1 | 61·5 |
| 6911 | Aid for the re-storage of table wines | 1·1 | 2·0 | ||
| 37·2 | 63·5 | ||||
| Tobacco | 70 | 7011 | Storage | 7·1 | 9·2 |
| Fisheries | 71 | 7111 | Aid for private storage | — | 1·0 |
| Flax and Hemp | 73 | 730* | Intervention in respect of flax and hemp | 13·8 | 15·0 |
| Total | 824·5 | 1,210·8 | |||
| (£343·5m) | (£791·4m) | ||||
| Notes: | |||||
| 1. The figures for 1978 are drawn from the general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 1978 (OJ Vol. 21 No. L36 of 6th February 1978) as amended by supplementary budget No. 2 (OJ Vol. 21 No. L121 of 8th May 1978) and do not therefore take account of later developments. Those for 1977 are taken from the draft budget document for 1979 adopted by the Council on 18th July 1978. | |||||
| 2. The figures do not include the effect of the double rate of conversion since a separate budget entry was made for the total effect in both years and was not broken down by commodity. The total for 1977 storage costs in mua has been converted to sterling at the rate of 2.4ua=£1 and that for 1978 in meua at 1·53ua=£1. | |||||
1977 and the provision made in the EEC budget for 1978.
The information requested is set out in the table below which should be read in conjunction with the notes.
| 3. Budget heads marked with an asterisk (*) include expenditure on aid other than storage as follows:— |
| (a) Rice (article 611) | Production refunds and subsidy for supplies to the French overseas Department of Réunion |
| (b) Pigmeat (article 661) | Measures to encourage consumption of pigmeat e.g. advertising |
| (c) Flax and hemp (article 730) | Acreage payments |
| 4. The cost of sugar storage refunds (item 6412) has not been included because this relates to an orderly marketing rather than an intervention buying and storage measure. Producers and refiners pay a levy which, taking one year with another, equals the cost of the refunds. |