At the Agriculture Council in Luxembourg on 18 June, France will suggest the animal feed sector as a channel for speeding up the disposal of skimmed milk powder stocks, which have been affecting the market for several months.
In a memo to be presented to EU agriculture ministers and the European Commission, France will suggest assigning a significant quantity of the skimmed milk powder stocks built up through public intervention (still around 350,000 tonnes) to a “tenders procedure...