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Mr. Teddy Taylor
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what increases or decreases have taken place in the surpluses of food and wine in the EEC, both in public and private storage, over the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available; and if he anticipates that they will increase or decline over the next 12 months.
Mr. Curry
The information is as follows:
| Commodity | 1989 | 1990 | Reference date |
| EC Intervention Stocks ('000 tonnes) | |||
| Butter | 30 | 187 | September |
| SMP | 5 | 333 | September |
| Beef | 123 | 145 | June |
| Olive oil | 133 | 71 | June |
| Total cereals | 8,586 | 11,651 | September |
| Durum | 1,117 | 1,053 | September |
| Wheat | 2,466 | 5,346 | September |
| Barley | 3,136 | 3,412 | September |
| Rye | 1,089 | 1,521 | September |
| Table wine (ML) | 1,531 | 624 | January |
| (March) | |||
| EC Private Storage ('000 tonnes) | |||
| Butter | 223 | 191 | September |
| Cheese | 159 | 167 | September |
| Beef | 38 | 0 | September |
| Pigmeat | 0 | 2 | July |