Agricultural prices 1994/1995: threshold prices for certain milk products

1994/95 AGRICULTURAL PRICES: The number of animals included in the regional references for male animal premiums granted as part of the common organisation of the market in beef and veal was 30%, or in some Member States even 50%, greater than the number of premiums granted in previous years. This was the result of being able to use 1992 as the reference year, and it meant that the aim of controlling production and stabilising expenditure could not be achieved. It was therefore proposed to amend the provisions relating to the special premium for male bovine animals, allowing the Member States to choose the years 1989 to 1991 as the reference year instead of 1992. As regards the rules on allocation, the Commission proposed to restrict the second premium granted, for animals aged 22 months, only to bullocks and no longer to young bulls, whose meat was of a poorer quality at that age.�