Milk and dairy products situation

Recommendation 219 (1959)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly Debate on 18th September 1959 (21st Sitting) (see Doc. 1045, Report of the Committee on Agriculture). Text adopted by the Assembly on 18th September 1959 (21st Sitting).

The Assembly,

Having considered the Report of its Committee on Agriculture on the production and marketing of milk and dairy products ;

Taking note of the valuable work of the Ministerial Committee on Agriculture and Food of O.E.E.C. and of the recent improvement in the dairy products market ;

Considering, nevertheless, that on account of long-term production trends, this improvement is likely to be of a temporary character ;

Recommends that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and the Council of O.E.E.C. :

1 should continue the studies undertaken with a view to harmonising, coordinating and stabilising the national markets of dairy products and concluding multilateral long-term agreements designed to stabilise prices and expand the volume of trade ;

2 should prepare a programme of action which could be implemented immediately in an emergency in order to restore the normal situation of the market ;

3 should, as a matter of long-term policy, urge the Governments to ensure that the principles laid down in the recommendations made from time to time by the Ministerial Committee on Agriculture and Food should really be put into effect ;

4 should invite the European Economic Community, when working out its policy for milk and milk products, to take account of the interdependence of the dairy economies of all the Members of O.E.E.C.