Council Regulation (EC) No 248/2008 of 17 March 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the national quotas for milk
Date: 2008-03-17
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU Member State, agricultural quota, common organisation of markets, milk

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 248/2008

of 17 March 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the national quotas for milk

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

assessing the appropriateness of allocating additional
quotas.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof,

establishing the European

(4)

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Annex IX to 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 (the ‘single CMO’ Regulation) (1) sets
down the national milk quotas for the seven 12-month
periods commencing on 1 April 2008 within the milk
quota system for production limitation.

Article 66(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides
that those quotas are fixed without prejudice to possible
review in the light of the general market conditions and
particular conditions in certain Member States.

The Council requested that the Commission undertake a
market outlook report when the 2003 reforms of the
common market organisation in milk
and milk
products had been fully implemented with a view to

This report has been conducted and concluded the
current situation of the Community and world markets
and their projected situation in the period to 2014,
warrant an additional
increase in quota by 2 % to
facilitate the production of more milk within the
emerging market
to
Community
requirements for dairy products.

satisfy

help

(5)

(6)

Therefore it is appropriate to increase all Member State
quotas as shown in Annex IX of Regulation (EC) No
1234/2007 by 2 % from 1 April 2008.

Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Point 1 of Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 is
hereby replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 March 2008.

For the Council
The President

I. JARC

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.

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ANNEX

Member State

‘1. National quotas

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Denmark

Germany

Estonia

Ireland

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Netherlands

Austria

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Slovakia

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

Quantity (tonnes)

3 427 288,740

998 580,000

2 792 689,620

4 612 619,520

28 847 420,391

659 295,360

5 503 679,280

836 923,260

6 239 289,000

25 091 321,700

10 740 661,200

148 104,000

743 220,960

1 738 935,780

278 545,680

2 029 861,200

49 671,960

11 465 630,280

2 847 478,469

9 567 745,860

1 987 521,000

3 118 140,000

588 170,760

1 061 603,760

2 491 930,710

3 419 595,900
15 125 168,940’