GENERAL NATURE WHICH MAY APPLY TO ANY COMMUNITY AID FOR LIQUID SKIMMED MILK , THE FACT REMAINS THAT AT NO TIME DID THE COMMISSION , BEFORE BRINGING THESE PROCEEDINGS , PUT FORWARD ARGUMENTS INDICATING , EVEN IMPLICITLY , THAT IT BELIEVED THAT THE DIFFERENTIATION OF PRICES WAS ALSO AN OBSTACLE TO THE EFFICIENT FUNCTIONING OF THE COMMUNITY AID SCHEME FOR LIQUID SKIMMED MILK FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CASEIN AND CASEINATES .
49 CONSEQUENTLY , SINCE THE SECOND SUBMISSION WAS RAISED BY THE COMMISSION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS APPLICATION IT MUST BE DECLARED INADMISSIBLE .
THE SUBSTANCE OF THE FIRST SUBMISSION 50 ON THE BASIS OF THE MOST RECENT FIGURES NOTIFIED TO IT BY THE UNITED KINGDOM IN SEPTEMBER 1983 BEFORE THESE PROCEEDINGS WERE BROUGHT , THE COMMISSION STATES THAT THE PRICE OF WHOLE MILK WAS SET AT A HIGHER LEVEL WHERE THE RESULTING SKIMMED MILK WAS USED ON FARMS THAN WHERE IT WAS PROCESSED INTO POWDER . THE PRICE DIFFERENCE , WHICH VARIES BETWEEN 0.83 AND 0.89 ECU PER 100 KG ACCORDING TO THE INTENDED USE OF THE BUTTERFAT , REPRESENTS 14.6% OF THE AID FOR LIQUID SKIMMED MILK FOR FEEDING CALVES AND 9.8% OF THE AID FOR LIQUID SKIMMED MILK FOR FEEDING PIGS AND POULTRY ; IN SEPTEMBER 1983 THOSE AIDS WERE 6.10 AND 9.10 ECU PER 100 KG RESPECTIVELY .
51 IN THE LIGHT OF THOSE FIGURES THE COMMISSION OBSERVES THAT THE REAL LEVEL OF THE COMMUNITY AID IS THUS REDUCED , SINCE A PURCHASER OF WHOLE MILK WHO INTENDS TO USE THE RESULTING SKIMMED MILK FOR ANIMAL FEED IS OBLIGED TO PAY A HIGHER PRICE FOR THE WHOLE MILK THAN IF HE INTENDED TO PROCESS THE RESULTING SKIMMED MILK INTO POWDER . THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE AID IS THUS REDUCED , BECAUSE BUYERS OF WHOLE MILK USE LESS LIQUID SKIMMED MILK ON FARMS THAN THEY OTHERWISE WOULD , AND PROCESS GREATER QUANTITIES INTO POWDER .
52 THE UNITED KINGDOM ADMITS THAT LIQUID SKIMMED MILK IS USED IN THAT COUNTRY ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FOR FEEDING PIGS AND THAT VIRTUALLY NONE IS USED FOR FEEDING CALVES AND POULTRY . IT GOES ON TO STATE THAT ' THE SKIM VALUE OF SKIMMED MILK USED ON FARMS IS 0.89 ECU PER 100 KG HIGHER THAN THE SKIM VALUE OF SKIMMED MILK USED FOR DRYING BECAUSE THE PRICE THE PIG FARMER IS PREPARED TO PAY FOR SKIMMED MILK FOR USE ON FARMS ( HAVING REGARD TO COMPETING FEEDSTUFFS ) YIELDS AFTER DEDUCTION OF COSTS A BETTER RETURN TO THE MILK PRODUCER THAN DOES THE MARKET PRICE OF SKIMMED-MILK POWDER LESS THE COSTS OF DRYING ' .
53 IT MUST BE OBSERVED THAT , AS APPEARS FROM THE SECOND RECITAL IN THE PREAMBLE TO REGULATION NO 986/68 , REFERRED TO ABOVE , THE AID FOR LIQUID SKIMMED MILK FOR USE AS ANIMAL FEED IS INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE GREATER USE OF LIQUID SKIMMED MILK AS ANIMAL FEED BY ENSURING THAT THE SELLING PRICE IS AS LOW AS POSSIBLE .
54 AS THE COMMISSION