Black market for milk predicted when EU quotas and sanitary regs kick in...

Currently, only 357,000 of the nation's 800,000 dairy farms have applied for inclusion in the production quotas system, leading Stanisław Michalski, the president of the Domestic Association of Milk Cooperatives, to speak of a possible "black market for milk," on which one tenth of locally produced milk will be sold. Moreover, the Association estimates that the number of milk producers will decrease by around 100,000 farms over the next three years, largely due to the fact that the investments required to meet the EU's sanitary norms are only profitable for farms with at least 20 cows, viz. 40% of domestic units. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) E.B.