Press Release: Commission launches Milk Market Observatory

On 16 April 2014, a new European Milk Market Observatory was launched by European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Cioloş.

In light of the end of the milk quota regime on 31 March 2015, the Observatory will strengthen the European Commission’s capacity to monitor the dairy market and help the sector adapt to the new environment, after some 30 years under a quota regime. The Observatory is aimed at increasing transparency and providing the most accurate market data, so that actors of the milk supply chain can take well-informed business decisions and the Commission can make well-informed policy decisions.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Agriculture and Fisheries Council, 14 April 2014, Luxembourg http://www.europeansources.info/record/meeting-agriculture-and-fisheries-council-14-april-2014/

ESO: Background information: The EU dairy sector: developing beyond 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-the-eu-dairy-sector-developing-beyond-2015/

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