This is a serious situation (1650) The other important thing is that since the export markets were closed to us, the huge amounts of products that were being sold to overseas markets are having to be kept in Canada and rendered.

Storage capacity for rendered products and costs;

Storage capacity for rendered products and costs;

As regards Article 90 of the Treaty, the Commission concluded that France had failed to meet its obligations under Article 90 of the Treaty by applying the so-called ‘rendering levy’ to purchases of meat and other products specified by any person retailing such products, and that the levy was offset, at least in part, in the case of French products, by full public financing of rendering and the collection of animal carcases and products seized at slaughterhouses, whereas the levy was paid on products from other Member States under the same conditions but they did not benefit from the advantages of the fund into which the levy is paid.

This was not the case with the rendering scheme laid down by Law No 75-1336 of 31 December 1975 supplementing and amending the Code rural as regards the rendering industry (20), which was based on adding value to the products collected by the rendering undertaking in exchange for a monopoly on collection in a given area.

In France, exemption from the cost of rendering those same products might have had an impact on the price of beef and veal but, according to the French authorities, this could not have been greater than the impact of the cost, downstream, of the rendering levy.