The European Parliament has voted for EU governments to have power to expand their milk quotas, should some member states with weak dairy industries not produce their full allocation.
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Amending the EU’s ‘health check’ reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy, MEPs said: “Member states [should] increase their quotas temporarily if the quotas of other member states are under-used.”
This will be welcomed by the European Commission, which has faced opposition from EP agriculture committee members to its planned 1% annual increase of quotas until 2013-14, ahead of their 2015 abolition.
MEPs also backed this plan, although they asked Brussels to review the situation in 2010.
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