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Surplus Produce

Volume 178: debated on Monday 29 October 1990

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To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what provision has been made in the 1991 EEC budget for the dumping and destruction of surplus food and wine.

[pursuant to his reply, 15 October 1990, c. 764]: Revision to the sterling-ecu exchange has caused some amendments to the figures originally given in reply to this question.

The 1991 European Community draft budget provides for 854 million ecu (£595 million) of expenditure on the withdrawal of agricultural produce, not all of which is destroyed.