HC Deb 10 December 1990 vol 182 cc314-5W
Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Southend, East on 20 November,Official Report, column 85, if the rates of export refund for wine fall to be adjusted in respect of the special sales to Poland and other east European nations; and if he will further indicate the prices at which the wine is purchased from EEC sources before the export refund is applied.

Mr. Curry

There are no special arrangements covering the sale of wine, or of EC stocks of wine alcohol, to Poland or other east European nations.

Representative market prices for table wines are published each week in the C series of the Official Journal of the European Communities. The first during the year in question were published in C.113 of 4 May 1989 (P.4); and the last in C.104 of 26 April 1990 (P.7).

I apologise for an error in my earlier answer. Conversion rates to be applied are:

  • up to 31 August 1989 one ecu/per cent. vol./hectolitre = £0.0675071/litre
  • up to 10 January 1990 one ecu/per cent. vol./hectolitre = £0.0701383/litre
  • up to 11 January 1990 one ecu/per cent. vol./hectolitre = £0.0704335/litre.

The conversion rates assume table wine at 10 per cent. alcohol by volume.