Whilst the EU Commission is adamant that recently announced support measures for the dairy sector are temporary and the principle of quota abolition irrevocable, some of their newer proposals seem deeply paradoxical in their implications. In its July report on the dairy market, the Commission seemed to float the idea of allowing Member States to engage in supply management by giving them the option of collecting superlevy from producers, even when the country was not over quota. Every farmer would be bound by his individual quota.
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