חוק תכנון משק החלב (תיקון מס' 3), התש"ף-2020Law on Dairy Sector Planning (Amendment No. 3), 2020 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Dairy Industry Planning Law, 2011 (hereinafter – the Law), regulates the dairy sector as a planned sector, and among other things provides that the "target price," the minimum price that dairies are obligated to pay producers (dairy farmers) for a liter of raw milk, shall be determined according to principles to be set in orders under the Supervision of Prices of Commodities and Services Law, 1996, which shall apply in this regard with certain modifications. Until the enactment of the Law, the target price was determined based on production costs, and the method of calculation was based on agreements reached over many years between the various parties in the sector. In order to maintain stability in the sector, which could have been harmed by price changes without appropriate preparation, a transitional provision was established whereby, during eight years from the commencement date of the Law, that is, until 6 October 2019, the target price would be determined in accordance with the last target price published prior to the commencement of the Law and would be updated according to an updating mechanism to be set in regulations (these regulations were amended in 2012). The transitional provision was extended in accordance with the provisions of Section 38 of Basic Law: The Knesset, concerning the extension of the validity of enactments, until 16 June 2020. In order to enable the incoming Ministers of Agriculture and Finance to formulate policy on the matter and to enact orders reflecting this policy, the said transitional provision was extended, as part of the Dairy Industry Planning Law (Amendment No. 3), 2020, until 31 December 2020. The Ministers were authorized to extend it, by order, with the approval of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, for one additional period until 30 June 2021. In addition, the provision in the Law requiring the Ministers to publish an order setting the target price for the first time under the Supervision of Prices of Commodities and Services Law, 1996, at least six months before the end of the transitional period, was deleted, since under that provision the Ministers would be required to publish the order already at this time, even before their policy on the matter had been formulated.

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