Milk Market in Poland - Selected Aspects of Functioning

The paper discusses key elements of functioning of the milk market in Poland after the accession to the European Union. In Poland, it was stated that there was the surplus of supply over the demand in the analysed period in the milk market. It was affected by the fact that Poland had been a net milk and dairy products exporter. In foreign trade, there was a trend towards eliminating the differences between export and import milk and dairy products. Poland's milk market, the same as in the European Union, is regulated by milk quota system. This system had a favourable impact on the intensification of processes of the specialisation of both the concentration of the production and milk processing, and at the same time reduced production and food - processing potential options. In the analysed period, there was an advantageous milk balance - this is proved by the indicator of the self - sufficiency, which is on the level of 110%. Dynamics of prices changes in the milk market in Poland were on the similar level as the level of total food.