The German quotation again served as a role model, with its 3 cents’ increase. The other quotations followed suit with price increases on such scale.

At a corrected plus 1.4 cents, the French price increase remained slightly below that level. It seems that the missing day of slaughter had a little more effect there.

But in France, too, the situation appears to have stabilised on the slaughter pig market after the period of price decline.

Trend for the German market: Demand for meat is looked upon favourably. This still goes on after Whitsuntide. The quantities of live pigs on offer have not gone up, and demand on the part of slaughter companies remains unbroken. This trend is confirmed by the results achieved on the Internet Pig Auction, being indicative of the prices remaining steady at least.

Prices in Euros (€)

Week	ESP	D	NL	DK	F	B	PL	CZ	IT	AUT	GB	IR
Week 17	1.797	1.526	1.472	1.558	1.738	1.495	1.554	1.547	1.785	1.509	1.961	1.555
Week 18	1.797	1.546	1.500	1.558	1.734	1.507	1.569	1.556	1.823	1.509	1.976	1.565
Week 19	1.803	1.546	1.500	1.558	1.707	1.519	1.569	1.560	1.705	1.509	1.956	1.565
Week 20	1.803	1.546	1.500	1.558	1.662	1.519	1.551	1.566	1.697	1.509	1.966	1.574
Week 21	1.798	1.546	1.500	1.558	1.621	1.519	1.556	1.575	1.725	1.509	1.960	1.574
Week 22	1.819	1.626	1.566	1.585	1.603	1.593	1.608	1.610	1.790	1.571	1.985	1.574
Week 23	1.835	1.626	1.566	1.612	1.602	1.606		1.627	1.790	1.571	1.976	1.613
Week 24	1.863	1.656	1.595	1.612	1.616	1.630			1.800	1.602	1.996	1.622

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)