Intervention Expenditure (Hansard, 27 February 1975)

§ Mr. Spearing

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he

EAGGF Guarantee Section	Expenditure 1973^* Units of Account	Sterling Equivalent
Cereals	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	952,977,724.64	397,074,051.93
Rice	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	11,193,830.81	4,664,096.17
Milk and milk products	…	…	…	…	1,458,497,695.00	607,707,372.91
Oils and fats	…	…	…	…	…	…	362,989,007.64	151,245,419.85
Sugar	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	127,071,479.31	52,946,449.71
Beef and veal	…	…	…	…	…	…	16,090,302.39	6,704,292.66
Pigmeat	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	90,594,915.90	37,747,881.62
Eggs and poultrymeat	…	…	…	…	…	21,452,130.55	8,938,387.71
Fruit and vegetables	…	…	…	…	…	34,490,348.21	14,370,978.43
Wine	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	11,760,502.40	4,900,209.34
Tobacco	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	118,269,648.93	49,279,020.39
Fisheries	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	1,188,838.10	495,149.21
Common organisation of markets in other sectors and products	…	…	…	…	…	…	24,764,164.04	10,318,401.68
Agricultural products processed into goods not included in Annex II to the EEC Treaty.	…	…	23,691,715.57	9,871,548.16
Accession compensatory amounts granted in respect of intra-Community trade	…	…	…	…	264,309,682.95	110,129,034.56
Expenditure due to the monetary situation	…	…	140,267,881.68	58,444,950.70
Appropriations for the discharge of liabilities from accounting periods prior to 1st January 1971	…	170,000,000.00†	70,833,333.33
Provisional commitments to be distributed to Budget headings	…	…	…	…	…	…	3,580,031.29†	1,491,679.71
TOTAL	…	…	…	…	…	3,833,189,899.41	1,597,162,458.08
^* The figures shown comprise expenditure settled and paid as at 31st December 1973 plus expenditure committed but not settled as at 31st December 1973.
† Carried over from 1973 to 1974.

EAGGF Guidance Section	Expenditure 1973^* Units of Account	Sterling Equivalent
Projects for improving the structure of agriculture referred to in Article 13 of Regulation No. 17/64/EEC	…	…	…	…	…	…	170,000,000.00	70,833,333.33
Joint schemes in particular sectors	…	…	…	2,700,000.00	1,125,000.00
Special measures	…	…	…	…	…	9,555,961.00	3,981,650.42
TOTAL	…	…	…	…	…	182,255,961.00	75,939,983.75
^* The figures shown comprise expenditure settled and paid as at 31st December 1973 plus expenditure committed but not settled as at 31st December 1973.
The new member States operated the common agricultural policy as from February 1973. Expenditure in January 1973 incurred by the original Six was added to expenditure under the 1972 Budget and so is excluded from the figures above.
Units of account converted at the rate of £1 equals 2.4 units of account.

208W

will provide a detailed breakdown of the expenditure of the EEC Guarantee and Guidance Section of intervention expenditure as set out on page 24 of Volume 7 of the draft Community budget of 1975, for the years 1973 and 1974, respectively; and where these are available to the public.