§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the total amount spent by the European Economic Community on intervention, storage and disposal of each of the commodities subject to the common agricultural policy in the latest year for which figures are available together with the tonnage of each commodity produced in the European Economic Community.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe following table gives the expenditure asked for on the basis of the normal EEC definition for such expenditure. Under this definition, expenditure on intervention includes assisted private storage by the Community and expenditure on the disposal of the stocks concerned but excludes export refunds and internal disposal measures.
EAGGF Expenditure 1982 Public Storage Private Storage mecu £ million mecu £ million Cereals 380.1 212 nil Sugar nil 489.9 273 Olive Oil 56.3 31 nil Oilseeds -0.4 — nil Textile plants nil 1.7 1 Fruits and Vegetables 192.1 107 nil Wine nil 108.4 60 Tobacco 30.1 17 nil Milk Products 150.2 84 156.5 87 Beef 326.8 182 14.7 8 Pigmeat nil 15.5 9 Fish 20.2 11 nil Notes:
(a) Source: EC Commission Twelfth Financial Report on the EAGGF 1982.
(b) Public storage figures include net losses incurred on sales as well as the technical and financial costs of storing products in intervention.
(c) For fruit and vegatables and fish sectors figures cover withdrawals and buying-in by producer groups.
(d) Figures for cereals exclude end of season carry-over payments.
(e) Conversions employ the rate 1 ecu = £0.557801.
The latest published information on levels of Community production for all commodities except olive oil is contained in the markets section of the agricultural situation of the Community 1983 report published by the European Commission, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. Community production of olive oil in the 1981–82 marketing year is estimated to have been 860,000 tonnes.