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Abstract
The CAP Health Check in 2008 may result in fundamental changes in EU dairy policy. An expansion
of the EU dairy quota is being strongly considered as a prelude to the elimination of the quota
mechanism by 2014/15. This paper addresses the implications of such a reform for EU and Irish dairy
commodity markets. We use a suite of partial equilibrium multi commodity structural models of EU
agricultural commodity markets to project the impact of an expansion in the dairy quota on milk and
dairy commodity production, dairy commodity prices and milk prices at an EU and Member State
level. A number of experiments are conducted involving differing annual rates of expansion of the
milk quota using national quota rents from the literature.