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Robert Mroczek EFFECT OF THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY ON BASIC
AGRICULTURAL MARKETS IN POLAND
Markets of meat, sugar and potato starch are subject to separate regulations, and their
production is covered with quotas system.
The level of the national milk quota, as granted to Poland in the season 2004/2005
amounted to 8 964 thousand tons 1 . It was increased by 416 thousand tons in 2006/2007.
The growing demand on milk and its products in the world and the rise of their prices
caused that the EU increased quotas by 2% for all the Member States. Since the 1 st day
of April 2008, Poland may produce 9 567.7 thousand tons of milk annually for the
market. Exceeding the granted limit by the farmers is connected with financial penalties.
In the years 2004 – 2007, milk production was stable and equaled to ca. 11.5 billion
litres. In 2007, there were 657 thousand agricultural farms, possessing cows, i.e. by 100
thousand less than three years earlier. CAP review, so called Health Check that was
completed in November provides further gradual increase of milk quotas by 1%
annually since 2009 so as to prepare the dairy sector to their complete abolishment in
2015. It might be specified as the so-called “soft landing” for milk producers when they
will be competing in the new market realities.
After extension of the European Union, sugar market was partially reformed. The main
changes in the discussed market consisted in decrease of quotas of sugar production,
replacement of intervention price by the reference price which up to 2009/10 will be
lowered by 36%, gradual decrease of minimum price for purchase of beetroots to 26.3
EUR/ton in 2009/10. Farmers, who give up the production of beets, receive appropriate
financial compensations. Sugar holdings which decrease sugar production, will also
receive the mentioned equivalents.
TAB.1. Production of sugar and its limits (in thousand tons)
Marketing years
(1.X.–30.IX.)
Production
Granted production limit
(quota A) (quota B)
Sugar surplus
(quota C) a
2001/02 1602 1540.0 104.4 -
2002/03 1956 1540.0 104.4 311.6
2003/04 1946 1520.0 102.2 323.8
2004/05 2002 1580.0 92.0 330.0
2005/06 2068 1495.0 87.0 486.0
2006/07 1723 1597.5 125.5
2007/08 1934 1533.2 400.8
a) up to the season 2006/7 sugar from quota C could be exported without payments, later on, such
possibility did not exist, but the Commission Regulation (EC) No 924/2008 of 19 September 2008 as
regards to 2008/2009 marketing year allows exporting 650 thousand tons of out-of-quota sugar from the
territory of the EU.
Source: Based on the materials of Ł. Chudoba
Quota for production of sugar in Poland in 2005/06 was equal to almost 1600 thousand
tons while in 2008/09 season will we be allowed to produce about 1400 tons of sugar. In
the years 2003 – 2007, the number of sugar beet planters decreased in Poland by 35%
i.e. to 59 thousand. During the discussed period, sugar production exceeded
1 National sum is the sum of gross amount and direct sale amount
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