The Market Responsibility Programme: to be able to counteract looming market crises in the milk sector early and properly in future, additional regulations applicable throughout the EU are required. The EMB and the German Dairy Farmers’ Association BDM have developed a Market Responsibility Programme (MRP) for this purpose.
Application of the MRP
The MRP is a programme for the EU milk sector that is 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:
1. Recognising crises – Market Index
2. Reacting to crises – applying the MRP
3. End of the crisis – crisis measures lifted
More information about the Market Responsibilty Programme (MRP) and the Market Index on www.europeanmilkboard.org in Brussels.
12 November 2015
Day of action with strong protests against ignorant EU milk policy. The crisis in the milk market has been able to spread like wildfire because there is no crisis instrument to counter it. Every country in Europe is affected – all dairy farmer fight for their survival and for the preservation of milk-producing regions.
On 12th November, major protests will thus be held by dairy farmers all over Europe. We invite you to attend these demonstrations. By means of strong symbolic actions, farmers will make clear that they do not accept the current ignorant dairy policy. In the run-up to the Agriculture Council meeting held in Brussels (16-17/11), European dairy farmers will send a clear message to policy makers:
