EC is not willing to get involved in the issues of the milk-market

Since the beginning of 2012, a drop in the demand for dairy products on world markets has led to a significant decrease in market prices for these products between January 2012 and April 2012 in Poland. Domestic demand for dairy products has been unable to absorb the developing surpluses, which means that stocks of dairy products in Poland are growing.

Poland considered that the current intervention price was too low for changing production conditions, which could impede the efficiency of intervention. Poland asked the Commission to adopt measures as soon as possible such as reintroducing export refunds and, in the longer term, to increase intervention prices for butter and skimmed milk powder.

The Commission was closely following the evolution of the milk market and was aware of the current situation. It declared itself ready to activate appropriate measures when it considered that there was a need, which was not the case now.