§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what is the most recent estimate of the value of agricultural producer support for(a) the EU and (b) each country thereof. [26647]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 11 January 2001]: The OECD produces annual estimates of agricultural producer support in OECD countries, called producer support estimate (PSE). This includes estimates of the value of support to producers through market support mechanisms as well as through national and EU budgets. Their most recent provisional estimate of PSE for the EU is 98 billion euro for 2000. The OECD does not provide estimates of agricultural producer support for individual countries within the EU, however the following table shows the payments from the EU budget under the Common Agricultural Policy to each member state. These payments include costs that are not directly received by farmers (eg costs of intervention storage), but they do not include payments by national Governments or the value of market price support.
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Payments from the EU budget under the common agricultural policy in 2000 Million euro Belgium 957 Denmark 1,309 Germany 5,675 Greece 2,598 Spain 5,485 France 9,006 Ireland 1,681 Italy 5,043 Luxembourg 21
Payments from the EU budget under the common agricultural policy in 2000 Million euro Netherlands 1,442 Austria 1,019 Portugal 653 Finland 728 Sweden 798 UK 4,062 Source:
Court of Auditors annual report concerning the financial year 2000.