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Restricted Commodities (EC)
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list all those commodities currently restricted in their intra-Community trade by the application of article 36 indicating in each case the state applying the ban.
Mr. Maclean : I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 24 January 1990, at column 770.
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Milk and Dairy Inspections
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish the amount charged for milk and dairy hygienic inspections for each year from 1979 to the present ; how many inspections were carried out during the same time period ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean : Charges for inspection and sampling visits to farms to enforce milk and dairies regulations were introduced on 30 March 1987. Levels of charge since then have been as follows :
|30 March 1987 to|From
|31 March 1989 |1 April 1989
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1. Routine dairy husbandry inspection visit
(a) higher rate |£90 |£78
(b) lower rate |£80 |£60
First follow-up visit |- |-
Second and subsequent follow-up visits
(a) higher rate |- |£78
(b) lower rate |- |£60
2. Routine sampling visit |£22 |£26
Follow-up visit |- |-
Numbers of routine and follow-up inspection and sampling visits to farms in England and Wales over the same period were as follows :
|1987- |1988- |1989-
|88 |89 |90
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1. Dairy husbandry inspection visits |24,131|18,335|19,641
2. Sampling visits |8,379 |7,442 |6,899
My officials are currently consulting interested parties about proposals to increase charges.
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