The European Commission has put it to the member states in a draft regulation that the initiative already taken in 2018 of setting a ceiling of zero tonnes for the buying-in at a fixed price under public intervention on skimmed milk powder be continued in 2019.
At the start of 2018, the member states gave the green light to this provisions, which came into effect on 1 March, in order to prevent the already considerable stocks of skimmed milk powder built up during the 2016 crisis swelling...