Concepts & Tools

Market Responsibility Programme

The Market Responsibility Programme (MRP) is a programme for the EU milk sector that is to be used when there is a risk of a milk market imbalance. A combination of monitoring and response to the market enables impending crises to be recognised and reacted to in a three-phase programme.

Click here to download the MRP in EN (PDF)

Click here to download the MRP in DE (PDF)

Click here to download the MRP in FR (PDF)

 

Road Map Milk and Market

MEG Milk Board developed the Road Map Milk & Market on the basis of the EU Dairy Package, the Law to improve market structure as well as the Sector Inquiry Milk of the German Antitrust Office.


Click here to download the roadmap in DE

Measures against market imbalances after the milk quotas in Europe

After the abolition of the dairy quota the European dairy market has been left in a highly volatile situation.

This study analyses the European situation comprehensively, compares it to the market situation in several other countries and gives 12 recommendations in order to stabilize the market:

Click here for the full text of the study in FR

Click here for a summary of the study in EN

 

Analysis of the EU volume reduction programme 2016/17

This study examines the EU milk volume reduction scheme that ran from October 2016 to January 2017. Farmers were given the opportunity to voluntarily reduce their production volume in exchange of a compensation (14 cents per kilogram of reduced milk compared to the same 3-months period of the previous year.

Click here for the full study in EN (PDF)