In Spain as well as in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and Great Britain, quotations are going up slightly.

In Germany, the processing industry prevents the due price increase by threatening to charge so-called discounted prices.

Although the Dutch quotation generally follows the German quotation, the price in the Netherlands went up by 1 cent.

For Austria’s producers, the price increase appears much clearer, going up by a corrected 2.1 cents despite last week’s public holiday (Feast of Corpus Christi). Substandard quantities of pigs mature for slaughter on offer has been cited as the main reason.

Apart from Germany, unchanged prices were only recorded in Denmark and Ireland.

Trend for the German market: According to what the marketeers, the quantities of live pigs on offer in Germany are still declining. After increase in neighbouring countries’ quotations, German slaughter companies will no longer be able to close themselves off against the positive trend.

Week	D	NL	DK	B	F	PL	CZ	IT	ESP	AUT	GB	IR
Week 16	1.646	1.576	1.604	1.593	1.630	1.661	1.590	1.595	1.819	1.561	1.845	1.603
Week 17	1.646	1.576	1.603	1.581	1.602	1.657	1.603	1.595	1.818	1.561	1.847	1.613
Week 18	1.586	1.519	1.603	1.532	1.564	1.617	1.633	1.595	1.809	1.499	1.878	1.613
Week 19	1.546	1.481	1.563	1.482	1.554	1.578	1.615	1.595	1.775	1.458	1.871	1.574
Week 20	1.546	1.481	1.563	1.482	1.565	1.570	1.594	1.595	1.754	1.458	1.891	1.574
Week 21	1.546	1.481	1.564	1.482	1.571	1.585	1.591	1.595	1.754	1.458	1.911	1.574
Week 22	1.546	1.481	1.563	1.482	1.578		1.616	1.595	1.754	1.458	1.886	1.574
Week 23	1.546	1.491	1.563	1.495	1.587			1.595	1.759	1.479	1.916	1.574
Prices in Euros (€)

Explanation
¹corrected quotation: The official Quotations of the different countries are corrected, so that each quotation has the same base (conditions).
base: 56 per cent lean meat; farm-gate-price; 79 per cent killing out percentage, without value-added-tax (VAT)