Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Intervention Board : BSE, the cost of a crisis report / by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

  • National Audit Office
Date:
1998
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Credit: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Intervention Board : BSE, the cost of a crisis report / by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Part 3: Other schemes and market support measures Introduction ESS) = The Over Thirty Month Scheme was the largest of the schemes brought into immediate effect in response to the beef crisis. However, while the scheme would provide work for abattoirs, renderers and others, the risk of a disorderly collapse of the beef industry led the Ministry to introduce a series of other schemes to support the market. These were designed to address the immediate short term problems following the beef export and animal feed bans by cushioning the impact on some sectors of the industry and on the market relationship between those sectors. E¥] = In addition, the Ministry started work on a selective cull scheme, a cattle traceability system and beef assurance and certified herd schemes as measures with the longer term objective of restoring consumer confidence and securing the lifting of the beef export ban imposed by the European Union. EX] This part of the report contains the results of the National Audit Office’s examination of: @ the Calf Processing Aid Scheme M@ other short term market support measures @ the Selective Cull @ cattle traceability systems @ the beef assurance and certified herd schemes =