Fischer Boel: quotas ‘out of place’

MILK quotas are out of place in the reformed Common Agricultural Policy — that’s the personal belief of EU Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

She told the British National Farmers’ Union annual conference in Birmingham that the milk quota system does not expire until 2015 “but if we decided not to renew it, we would have to make that clear as soon as possible, to give the dairy industry adequate time to prepare”.

“I am signalling now which way I think the wind is blowing. I believe milk quotas are out of place in the reformed CAP.