European Community (Temperate Foodstuffs)

HC Deb 21 April 1982 vol 22 cc87-8W

Mr. Body

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what, in percentage terms, is the degree of self-sufficiency each of the individual member States of the EEC has in respect of temperate foodstuffs.

Mr. Buchanan-Smith

Estimates of the degree of overall self-sufficiency of member States of the European Community in temperate products are not available. Estimates for individual commodities for each member State are published in table 28 of the appendix to the Agricultural Situation in the Community, 1981 report, Commission of the European Communities.