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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9399
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

Commission welcomes end of butter mountains - “Soft landing” for milk producers?

Brussels, 02/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - Mariann Fischer Boel, the European commissioner for agriculture, on 29 March announced the end of “butter mountains” being stored in the EU. The last stocks of European Union butter, which stand at just over 6000 tonnes, will soon be sold on the market. In 1986, the butter storage record was reached with 1.28 million tonnes. Thanks to the creation of milk quotas, which came in in 1984, these “butter mountains” and the “milk lakes” had...

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