§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each commodity subject to the common agricultural policy (a) the world price, (b) the common agricultural policy levy, (c) the monetary compensation amount for the United Kingdom, (d) the United Kingdom levy and (e) United Kingdom consumption in 1981.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe information on levies and "world prices" for the main commodities is provided in the following table. The third country offer prices used by the Commission to determine rates of levy applicable on 27 October 1982 are taken as the world price. For pigmeat, poultrymeat and eggs the world price is taken as the current sluicegate price, less supplementary levies where appropriate. As I have repeatedly emphasised the figures do not accurately represent the price at which the United Kingdom or the Community could buy from world markets if more supplies from third countries were sought. Estimates of food supplies for human consumption are not yet available for 1981.
69Wmultiplying by the United Kingdom monetary co-efficient of 0.893. For rice and olive oil, to which MCAs do not apply, the United Kingdom levy is the common levy converted at the representative rate. The sum of the common levy and United Kingdom MCA may not equal the United Kingdom net levy due to rounding.
║ Most imports of beef from third countries are subject to special arrangements allowing entry at reduced levy rates.
¶ Imports of lamb under voluntary restraint agreement with principal suppliers and related agreements are subject to a reduced charge of 10 per cent. ad valorem. Any imports outside these arrangements are subject to levies which cannot exceed the 20 per cent. tariff rate bound in the GATT.
• A special lower rate of levy is applicable to imports of butter from New Zealand.
▀ In practice United Kingdom imports from third countries are normally covered by the Lomé convention and enter the Community levy-free.