European Commission · DG AGRI
The European price sheetEdam
€3,665
EU · euro per tonne
Week −0.5%Year −22.9%
20/07/2026 – 26/07/2026
By member state
What each state reported for the week of 20/07/2026 – 26/07/2026. The spread across Europe is usually wider than the week's move.
| Member state | Price | Week | Year | Weeks filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU | € 3,665 | −0.5% | −22.9% | — |
| DEGermany | € 3,514 | −1.2% | −23.9% | 869 |
| PLPoland | € 3,784 | −7.1% | −16.2% | 870 |
| EEEstonia | € 4,847 | +15.5% | +0.7% | 824 |
Set aside
Four member states report butter at a level Europe does not trade at: Croatia sits 84% above the EU figure and has done all year. That is not a small market paying up — the gap widened as the market fell, which is what a packet or retail quotation does when the bulk price halves. Any state whose price has sat more than a fifth away from the EU figure over the last year is kept out of the table and the chart and listed here instead. Nothing is deleted; the Commission's own numbers are below.
- SKSlovakia€ 7,143+84%
- LVLatvia€ 4,397+40%
- HRCroatia€ 5,387+37%
- CZCzechia€ 4,428+24%
Five years, week by week
The EU line against the states that file often enough to draw. A line that stops has stopped being reported, not stopped trading.
- 30 · 2026
- EU€ 3,665
- DE€ 3,514
- PL€ 3,784
- EE€ 4,847
Since 2010
Monthly averages, because sixteen years of weekly prints is not a chart anyone can read. The Commission's EU aggregate only begins in 2000; the member states go back further.
- 2026-07
- EU€ 3,684
- DE€ 3,555
- SK€ 7,123
- CZ€ 4,357
What this is, and what it is not
These are prices member states report as representative of their own market. They are not exchange settlements, they are not audited, and they are not what any particular tonne changed hands for. Read them as the level a country's market was working at that week — useful for checking whether a quote sits with its origin, and not a substitute for a traded price. Where we hold both, the EEX settlement and our own executed average are shown next to them rather than mixed in.
Prices that do not move
Not every weekly filing is a fresh observation. Ireland resends the previous week's figure in roughly four weeks out of five, on every product it reports — and cheddar's European panel is Ireland alone, so the European cheddar reference changes about one week in six. On a chart that is indistinguishable from a market standing still, which is the more dangerous of the two readings. Any state that repeated itself in half of the last year's filings is marked in the table.
Where it goes quiet
Reporting is voluntary in practice and it thins out. The Netherlands stopped reporting gouda in 2021 and has never reported cream, so the European gouda reference is now German, Polish, Czech and Croatian — with the Dutch market, which sets it, absent. Cheddar is effectively Ireland alone. Nothing here is filled in or estimated — a state that did not file is absent, and says so.