Frans Keurentjes, chairman of the FrieslandCampina cooperative, believes that other dairy companies should review their delivery conditions. This is so that they can possibly impose sanctions on deliberately fraudulent milk suppliers.
Keurentjes wants other dairy companies to check their delivery conditions and regulations for the possibility of sanctioning dairy farmers who demonstrably commit fraud.
FrieslandCampina (RFC) has the option of sanctioning member dairy farmers who demonstrably and consciously commit fraud (in accordance with the regulations and articles of association of RFC). This can mean, for example, that the milk is not collected, or that the milk money is reduced.
Higher than expected
Approvals makes this statement in response to a letter issued by Minister Carola Schouten (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) last week. It states that almost 7.700 dairy farmers are suspected of fraud with the registration of calves. The NVWA has carried out inspections at a total of 93 of the companies in this group. In 45 of those inspections it appeared that the actual situation in the barn deviated from the registration. The NVWA will therefore also check the other dairy farmers.
Waiting for the outcome
NZO has announced that it will not tackle fraudulent dairy farmers within the organisation, but will leave this to the dairy companies themselves. Both NZO and RFC emphasize that they first want to wait for the outcome of the investigation before being able to comment further. They state that at the moment the priority is to get the Identification and Registration System in order.
De NVWA has indicated that it still needs 1 month before there is more clarity about how many dairy farmers do not have their livestock registration in order.
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