§ Mr. MorleyTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether all export contracts on grain exported to the EC state EC mass per storage volume, as set out in SI 1975 No. 655, arranged by British Cereal Exports; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. CurryBritish Cereal Exports is a promotional body which aims to identify the needs of grain buyers in export markets and to help ensure that these are met competitively by United Kingdom exporters. It does not itself export grain.
The details of grain export contracts are matters to be determined by the exporter and the importer of the grain. Cereals export trade organisations have recently been reminded of the provisions of SI 1975 No. 655 which lays down specific requirements to be met if the term EC mass per storage volume is used in trade in cereals between the United Kingdom and other member states of the European Community.
§ Mr. MorleyTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether the specific weight of grain taken into intervention in the United Kingdom is assessed on instruments which comply with the requirements of SI 1975 No. 655; and what those regulations require in respect of contracts for grain weighed out of intervention containing the words EC mass per storage volume.
§ Mr. CurryThe use of instruments complying with the requirements of SI 1975, No. 655 is not stipulated by EC regulation 1908/84, which governs intake of grain into intervention, nor are such instruments used for that
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Number of confirmed cases of bovine tuberculosis by county in England 1990 January-March April-June July-September October-December Avon 7 14 5 n/y/a Gloucestershire Bedfordshire 0 0 0 n/y/a Berkshire 0 0 0 0 Buckinghamshire 0 0 0 0 Cambridgeshire 0 0 0 n/y/a Cheshire 0 1 0 0 Cleveland 0 0 0 0 Cornwall 4 13 10 n/y/a Cumbria 0 7 1 1 Derbyshire 0 0 0 0 Devon 10 7 8 n/y/a Dorset 1 2 2 n/y/a Durham 0 0 0 0 Essex 0 0 0 n/y/a Kent 0 0 0 0 Hampshire 0 0 0 0 Hereford and Worcester 0 0 0 0 Hertfordshire 0 0 0 0 Humberside 0 0 0 0 Isle of Wight 0 0 0 0 Lancashire 0 1 0 n/y/a Leicestershie 0 0 0 0 Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0 Greater Manchester 0 0 0 0 Merseyside 0 0 0 0 purpose in practice. Contracts for sales of grain out of intervention do not contain the words "EC mass per storage volume"; they are not affected, therefore, by the provisions of the SI, which is concerned only with trade in cereals between the United Kingdom and other member states of the European Community.