asked the Minister for Agriculture the steps he is taking to ensure that the annual farm price negotiations will be completed before 1 April 1983.
Written Answers . - Farm Price Negotiations .
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: In the current EEC farm price negotiations I have been stressing the importance of reaching a settlement in time to enable the new prices to take effect from the start of the marketing year in April. A further meeting of the Council has been scheduled for 28 March at which I will be pursuing this line vigorously.