intervention purchase

Public intervention purchases were done away with in the 1998 reform, against Parliament' s wishes.

Removing intervention purchases for the pork meat market is not acceptable.

Intervention purchases have constituted one of the principal policy mechanisms regulating EU markets in sugar, cereal grains, butter and skimmed milk powder, and (until 2002) beef.

The situation must be resolved on a systematic basis, however, through long-term management of the sector, not just through short-term support measures such as subsidies, intervention purchases and support for private storage.