§ Mr. Marlowasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the national milk quotas of each European Economic Community country as agreed earlier in the current year, broken down by month on the appropriate monthly basis setting out his best estimates of production in each month to date by each country, comparing this output with quota and setting out the percentage over or under quota on a monthly basis and in the current year to date.
§ Mr. JoplingThe various national reference quantities laid down under the Community's supplementary levy scheme for milk were set out in my reply of 31 July to the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Mr. Wigley). Individual producers and dairies are generally liable to pay levy on a quarterly basis according to any excess of milk above their cumulative reference quantity for the corresponding quarter of the reference calendar year. The individual quarterly quantities depend on national decisions about the detailed implementation of the arrangements and are not laid down as aggregate national quarterly quantities.
The most recent monthly data on milk delivered to dairies in the current year are as follows:
Table: Monthly data on cow's milk delivered to dairies* 1984 '000 tonnes 1984 January February March April May Germany 2,088 2,029 2,300 2,304 n.a. France 2.067 2,065 2,388 2,531 2,862 Italy 670 707 771 n.a. n.a. Netherlands 982 969 1,108 1,143 n.a. Belgium 206 219 268 n.a. n.a. Luxembourg 19 19 21 22 27 United Kingdom 1,417 1,357 1,507 1,506 1,643 Ireland 157 268 459 n.a. n.a. Denmark 426 405 454 459 495 Greece 30 31 34 33 n.a. * Excludes on-farm use for animal feed and in general use for direct sales. Data subject to amendment. Source: Eurostat Beer Cronos.