EU school children to benefit from more fruit, vegetables and milk

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Children across the EU will continue to benefit from fruit, vegetables and milk at school thanks to the allocation of €250 million in EU funding for the 2017–2018 school year.

For the first time in 2017, the two so-called school schemes will be merged into one single scheme for simpler management at European and national level. The aim of the scheme remains the same, however - to increase the share of healthy food products in the diet of young people.

Of the €250 million agreed for 2017–2018, roughly €150 million will be allocated for fruit and vegetables and €100 million for milk. The money is used not only to provide fruit, vegetables and milk to schoolchildren but also to support teaching about agriculture and healthy diets, information about the scheme, monitoring and evaluation.

As well as agreement on the total allocation for the scheme, an indicative allocation of the funding to each member state was also made, based on the number of school-age children and, for the milk, also on the previous use of EU funds.

Countries have the freedom to request less or more, should additional funding be available, within the agreed overall budget. Under the new unified scheme, money that is allocated to a member state but not requested, for whatever reason, can be reallocated elsewhere within the scheme by the Commission.

The decision fixing the definitive allocation of EU funding to each member state was voted by the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets and should be adopted by the Commission around the end of March.

EU funding for school year 2017–2018

 Member  State

 Definitive allocation for school fruit and  vegetables (€)

 Definitive allocation for  school milk (€)

 Belgium

3 367 930

1 650 729

 Bulgaria

2 677 109

1 167 367

 Czech  Republic

4 082 903

1 842 407

 Denmark

2 386 393

1 606 402

 Germany

25 826 315

10 947 880

 Estonia

565 888

732 225

 Ireland

2 007 779

900 398

 Greece

3 218 885

1 550 685

 Spain

12 932 647

6 302 784

 France

17 990 469

17 123 194

 Croatia

1 720 946

800 354

 Italy

21 704 956

9 261 220

 Cyprus

390 044

400 177

 Latvia

813 091

745 497

 Lithuania

1 134 661

1 091 333

 Luxembourg

343 568

193 000

 Hungary

3 885 599

1 972 368

 Malta

372 747

144 750

 Netherlands

7 063 251

2 401 061

 Austria

2 946 591

1 278 933

 Poland

14 985 916

11 047 202

 Portugal

3 283 397

2 220 981

 Romania

6 866 848

10 865 578

 Slovenia

727 411

363 811

 Slovakia

2 185 291

1 020 425

 Finland

1 599 047

3 824 689

 Sweden

0

9 245 859

 United  Kingdom

0

4 219 008

 Total

145 079 683

104 920 317

 

Via ec.europa.eu

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