European Parliament 6 November 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-3169/02 by Eluned Morgan (PSE) to the Commission. CAP dairy payments.

The Commission is obviously aware of the fact that prices as low as those at Mercamadrid signalled by the Honourable Member may occur. However the Commission only relies on official statistics (FAO Globefish) and according to them, seabass and seabream average European prices recovered in December 2001 and were since then above the production costs every month, with the exception of seabream