Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – Evolution of the market situation and the consequent conditions for smoothly phasing out the milk quota system: second ‘soft landing’ report

Article 184(6) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) provides for the Commission to present a report before 31 December 2010 and 31 December 2012 to the European Parliament and Council regarding the evolution of the market situation and the consequent conditions for smoothly phasing out the milk quota system, accompanied if necessary by appropriate proposals. The so called first soft landing report was published on 8 December 2010 while the present one constitutes the second report of the series.

This report is made up of three parts: the first one describes the evolution of the market situation for cow milk from the middle of 2010 (end date of the first soft landing report) and outlines medium term prospects, the second section examines how the phasing-out of the milk quota system has occurred while concluding remarks are presented in the third chapter.

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