How can we then come up with a 5% drop in the intervention price?

Thus, the intervention price serves as a floor for market prices.

We consider the proposed reduction in the intervention price unnecessary.

The intervention price is set lower than the target price.

While provision should be made for a transition period during which the intervention price is maintained.

Perhaps the Commission could explain this again, as we have hitherto always had an intervention price for the most important products.

The intervention price is to be replaced by the reference price.

The reduction in the administrative intervention price of grain proposed by the Commission is a problem.

This is called the support price, or intervention price.

Lastly, the suggested proposals to lower intervention prices do not appear necessary in the current context.

Farmers should be protected from the extreme fluctuations in intervention prices that have been common over the past few years.

We support the first part of the report, which backs the Commission proposal to reduce the intervention price for cereals by 30 %.

Because the report opposes a reduction in the intervention price of cereal, we are voting against the Committee' s proposal.

Firstly, it will reduce the intervention price for skimmed milk powder by an average of 2.8%.

Ten years of continuous intervention price reductions have left it almost at the level of the world market price.

I refer by way of illustration to decreasing the intervention price for skimmed milk powder.

The internal market price can only vary in the range between the intervention price and target price.

The Commission is proposing to further reduce the additional charges on the intervention prices for cereals in two stages and then to fix them.

An internal intervention price is set.

Consistency therefore required that the Commission's two proposals, concerning the intervention price and the monthly increments, be treated in the same way.

Simply proposing a unilateral reduction of the intervention prices of agricultural products does not in itself constitute a policy.

It is for that reason that we must regrettably cut intervention prices by 5% as scheduled, and stop increasing them on a monthly basis.

When we talk of more efficient support for products, we mean better intervention prices, more subsidies and protection from mass imports.

Its members, representing both producing and consuming nations, were sharply divided on what intervention price should trigger the withholding mechanism, analysts said.

I do not need to remind you that the intervention price for cereals is the earnings index for hundreds of thousands of farmers.