Committee Reports::Report No. 06 - Fixing of Representative Conversion Rates in Agriculture and Use of the European Unit of Account in Common Agricultural Policy::19 April, 1978::Appendix

APPENDIX IV

DISTRIBUTION OF MCAs

Effect of a 10% change in the rates of exchange between snake and other Community currencies


(1) Under existing UA system

 

Present MCAs

MCAs following 10% change

Difference

Germany

..

..

+ 7.5%

+ 7.5%

Belgium/Lux

..

+ 1.4%

+ 1.4%

Netherlands

..

+ 1.4%

+ 1.4%

Denmark

..

..

0

0

Ireland

..

..

– 2.1%

–13.6%

+11.5%

France

..

..

–19.4%

–32.8%

+13.4%

Italy

..

..

–24.4%

–38.4%

+14%

U.K.

..

..

–29.2%

–43.7%

+14.5%

(2) Under EUA system (hypothesis (ii))

 

Present MCAs

MCAs following 10% change

Difference

Germany

..

..

+ 7.7%

+11.9%

+ 4.2%

Belgium/Lux

..

+ 1.1%

+ 5.7%

+ 4.6%

Netherlands

..

+ 0.9%

+ 5.4%

+ 4.5%

Denmark

..

..

– 0.4%

+ 4.2%

+ 4.6%

Ireland

..

..

– 3.6%

– 9.9%

+ 6.3%

France

..

..

–20.3%

–27.6%

+ 7.3%

Italy

..

..

–24.9%

–32.4%

+ 7.5%

U.K.

..

..

–30.7%

–38.5%

+ 7.8%

Note: The effect of the 10% movement under (1) is to increase the MCAs for the non-snake currencies by between 11·5 and 14·5 percentage points, while leaving the MCAs for the snake currencies unchanged. The effect under (2) is to increase the MCAs for the non-snake currencies by about half the movement under (1) while increasing the MCAs for the snake currencies by a little over 4 percentage points. Thus an EUA system spreads the consequences of currency fluctuation more evenly among all Community currencies.