Brussels, 29/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - EU member states gave their backing on Wednesday 29 April to the Commission proposal to close private storage aid for pigmeat.
Since the measure was introduced at the start of March, EU pigmeat market prices have stabilised and the weekly uptake by operators has now dropped to modest volumes. In these circumstances, the Commission believes that it is no longer justified to maintain this market intervention. In the past seven weeks, roughly 65,000 tonnes of pigmeat have been temporarily taken off the market (for 3-5 months) in 18 different member states. The greatest take-up came in Denmark, Spain and Germany - with smaller volumes also having been stored in Poland, Italy, Netherlands, France and Belgium. The majority of the cuts covered were boneless cuts (63%). For more information, see http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/pigmeat/private-storage/psa-requests_en.pdf (Lionel Changeur)