§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the estimated cost of the latest proposals being considered by European Economic Community agricultural ministers compared with the proposals originally put forward by the Commission.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe Commission's estimates of the financial effects of its original proposals and the final price settlement are as follows:
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mecu 1984 1985 Original proposals -875 -2,062 Outcome +187 -138 Variations from original proposals 892 +1,364 The Commission's latest figuring is, however, on a different basis from the original proposals, which did not show the full savings arising from the fall in deliveries of milk. The decisions now taken therefore involve further savings of 496 mecu in 1984 and a still larger amount in 1985, compared with what would otherwise have been the case.