Activities of Béla GLATTFELDER related to 2010/0362(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Explanations of vote
Amendments (3)
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) In 2007-2009, exceptional developments took place in milk and milk products sector markets. Initially, extreme weather conditions in Oceania brought about a significant decline in supplies, leading to a rapid and significant increase in prices. Yet while world supplies had started their recovery, and prices had started to return to more normal levels, the subsequentdecrease, the subsequent decisions to raise milk quotas and the financial and economic crisis negatively affected EU dairy producers, aggravating price volatility. Initially feed and other input costs including energy increased significantly as a result of higher commodity prices. Subsequently, a drop in worldwide, as well as EU, demand, including for milk and milk products, whilst EU production was stable led to a collapse in EU prices, down to the lower safety net level. This sharp decline in dairy commodity prices failed to fully translate into lower dairy prices at consumer levels, generating a widening in the gross margin of the downstream sectors for most milk and milk sector products and countries, and preventing demand for them to adjust to low commodity prices, slowing down price recovery and exacerbating the impact of low prices on milk producers.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The Commission based its proposals to raise milk quotas on unfounded market assumptions, and its subsequent decisions contributed to deteriorating market conditions.
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a regulation - amending act
Article 1 – point 9
Article 1 – point 9
Regulation (EC) 1234/2007
Article 185 f – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 185 f – paragraph 4 a (new)
(4 a) In the case of cross-border raw milk sales, the regulations on contracts of the Member State where the dairy farmer is located shall apply.