Select Committee on Agriculture Second Report


ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE REPORT

AM  -   Member of the Welsh Assembly
BSE  -   bovine spongiform encephalopathy
CAP  -   Common Agricultural Policy
DANI  -   Department of Agriculture Northern Ireland
DGFT  -   Director General of Fair Trading
DIF  -   Dairy Industry Federation (until 1994 Dairy Trade Federation)
DTI  -   Department of Trade and Industry
FUW  -   Farmers Union of Wales
HUKI  -   Holstein United Kingdom and Ireland
IMPE  -   Intervention Milk Price Equivalent
MAFF  -   Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
MDC  -   Milk Development Council
MMB  -   Milk Marketing Board (the England and Wales MMB was succeeded
in 1994 by Milk Marque Ltd)
MMC  -   Monopolies and Mergers Commission (replaced in 1999 by the
Competition Commission)
MSI  -   Milk Strategy Initiative
NDC  -   National Dairy Council
NFU  -   National Farmers Union
NFUS  -   National Farmers Union of Scotland
OFT  -   Office of Fair Trading
RABDF  -   Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers
SERAD  -   Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department
WTO  -   World Trade Organisation




 
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