HC Deb 07 July 1988 vol 136 c655W
124. Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Prime Minister if she will make a statement on the measures taken since the February meeting of the European Council to implement the proposals for agriculture agreed at that meeting.

The Prime Minister

Regulations have been agreed for the introduction or extension of stabilisers in all the main agricultural commodity regimes and for the introduction of set-aside. The improved budget discipline arrangements agreed by the European Council have also entered into legal force, and have governed the 1988 price-fixing. Regulations have also been agreed providing for the depreciation over five years of existing stocks and the depreciation in the year of entry of new stocks.

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