§ Mr. Biffenasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing the estimated increase in dairy industry prices for each component nation of the European Community as a consequence of decisions of the recent meeting of Agricultural Ministers; and how these prices have been affected by subsequent currency parity charges.
§ Mr. BishopThe following table shows the intervention prices for butter and for skimmed milk powder in units of account and in the national currencies of each of the EEC member States at the end of the 1975–76 marketing year and now. The figures in national currencies have been calculated using the representative rates for the relevant periods:—
purposes and wheat to be used for animal feedstuffs.
§ Mr. BishopThe Council of Ministers has decided that for the 1976–77 marketing year separate intervention prices will be operated for breadmaking and feed wheat and that for this purpose the distinction will be drawn by a baking test, ie, whether an acceptable loaf can be made from samples of flour prepared and 463W baked under specified standard conditions. The details of the test and of the appropriate intervention quality standards are still under discussion.