Published: 2012-12-14 Authour: Mark Astley Views: 20
Core Tip: The European Commission (EC) is expecting a “soft landing” when European Union (EU) milk quotas are abolished in 2015.
The EU milk quota system was introduced in 1984 to address the problem of over-production in the region. Each Member State has two quotas - one for deliveries to dairy processors, and the other for direct sales at farm level.