1. The average Union price, per 100 kg of carcass weight, of calves slaughtered at the age of less than eight months shall be the average of the prices recorded for those calves on the representative markets of the Member States with an important share in the production as referred to in Annex III, which shall be weighted by coefficients established on the basis of the net production of those calves in the Union.

During agricultural research, when the aim of the research requires that the animals are kept under similar conditions to those under which commercial farm animals are kept, the keeping of the animals should at least follow the standards laid down in Council Directive 98/58/EC (17) and in the specific Directives for the protection of calves and pigs (Council Directives 91/629/EEC (18) and 91/630/EEC (19) as well as in the Recommendations adopted under the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes (ETS No 87).

As part of the strategy, Set-aside Programs have been initiated for fed and feeder cattle to help maintain cattle prices and a mechanism has been established to help deal with older cows and bulls which are past their normal productive life.

When I go into a barn and I see 40 or 60 head of young stock that are dehydrated with their eyes sunk back in their heads and they all have pneumonia, I can treat them.

1. Import prices shall be calculated for both calves and adult bovine animals on the basis of quotations recorded on the most representative markets of third countries.

4. The price recorded on the representative markets of the Community shall be derived from the prices recorded on the representative market or markets of each Member State for the various qualities - of calves, adult bovine animals or the meat of these animals, as the case may be - after taking into account the relative quantity of each of such qualities and the relative magnitude of the bovine stock of each Member State.