PART IIINTERNAL MARKET

TITLE IMARKET INTERVENTION

CHAPTER IPublic intervention and private storage

Section IIPublic intervention

Subsection IIOpening and suspension of buying-in

Article 17Pigmeat

The Commission may decide to open public intervention in the pigmeat sector when the average Community market price for pig carcasses as established by reference to the prices recorded in each Member State on the representative markets of the Community and weighted by means of coefficients reflecting the relative size of the pig herd in each Member State, is, and is likely to remain, at less than 103 % of the reference price.