Written answers

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Department of Agriculture and Food

Milk Quota

9:00 pm

Photo of Dan NevilleDan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 297: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make a statement on a matter (details supplied). [15326/08]

Photo of Mary CoughlanMary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I would refer the Deputy to the provisions of Regulations 4 to 7 of the European Communities (Milk Quota) Regulations, 2000 (S.I. No 94 of 2000). In general, the person in question can assign to the purchaser of his lands so much of his or her milk quota as attaches to those lands by reference to the provisions of Regulation 4. If the lands are being sold other than to a family member as defined in Regulation 6, an application will have to be made under Regulation 7 to my Department for a certificate of entitlement to transfer the milk quota; and where the volume of milk quota in question exceeds, on average, 5,000 litres per acre, the applicant must provide a statutory declaration concerning his or her dairying enterprise. Other than that, there is no maximum or minimum amount laid down.

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