§ Mr. Litterickasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what are the current import prices, as determined by EEC policy, of the following items: common (soft) wheat, durum (hard) wheat, white sugar, beef, veal, pigmeat, eggs, butter and milk powder expressed as indices of world market prices.
§ Mr. BishopThe indices are given below. The world prices used to calculate the indices are those implied by the EEC Commission's calculation of common import levies on Monday 9th October. As explained previously, these prices are often for small unrepresentative losts offered at EEC frontiers and do not represent prices at which substantial quantities could he purchased on world markets.
EEC ENTRY PRICES EXPRESSED AS AN INDEX NUMBER OF THIRD COUNTRY OFFER PRICES, MONDAY 9TH OCTOBER 1978. Common Wheat 204 Durum Wheat 223 White Sugar 287 Beef and Veal (live animals) 194 Pigmeat 152 Eggs 173 Butter 409 Skimmed Milk Powder 431 [Vol. 931, c. 517–18; Vol. 938, c. 195–6: Vol. 945, c. 748.]