Production quota system

Starch production in Europe is currently constrained by a starch quota system that offers financial incentives to first processors, designed to prevent overproduction in the food sector. Opening up of new industrial market outlets would enable a reassessment of current quota limits imposed on member states, and enable wider participation in starch production across the European Union. 

Commission of the European Communities. Report from the Commission to the Council on the Quota System for the Production of Potato Starch, Brussels COM December 19, 2006, p 827. 

If a workplace is injury-free, it is not necessarily safe. Behind the scenes, the tip of the iceberg in the form of a serious injury may not yet have appeared, but near miss incidents exist at the base. A safe organization means no deviations in the management system, no poor quality products are produced, and production quotas are met without losing money in other areas, such as injuries, damage, and interruptions. 

There is a world surplus of sugar and, to restrict output, a quota system operates for the production of sugar in the EU and this affects the price the grower receives. The armual beet contract for individual UK growers is expressed as a contracted tonnage, which is the amount of quota beet which receives the top price for the production of, at present, approximately 1.4 million tonnes of sugar. 

Cohen et al. (2006) cautioned that DMI and milk yield could be suppressed, and any benefits derived from supplemental carbohydrates overshadowed, if the level of cereal grain supplementation caused the neutral detergent fibre (NDF) concentration of the diet to reach a point where digestion was impaired or acidosis prevailed. The authors also reported that the cost of the supplement and the practices needed to feed the supplement should not outweigh the marginal responses to supplementation. However, under European Union (EU) circumstances the level of production p)er unit area may be limited by environmental constrains. This limitation of production or income may become more impxalant if the EU ends the milk quota system. 

Tett, P. and Droop, M.R. (1988) Cell quota models and planktonic primary production, in Handbook of Laboratory Model Systems for Microbial Ecosystems, vol. 2 (ed. J.W.T. Wimpenny), CRC Press, Florida, pp. 177-233. 

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