Aspects concerning the milk and dairy products market in EU

Abstract

Agricultural market of the European Union has long been regulated and now it is at an advanced stage of simplification and reduction of the intervention measures to increase competitiveness of Community agriculture, which competes with agriculture worldwide in the process of liberalization of international trade. The milk and dairy products are the first European production sector. In the period 2000-2003 in EU-15 there was a significant decrease, but constant of the milk production, this decrease happened consciously because of the large stocks of products in the EU. For each country the production has fluctuated differently from one country to another.