European Commission · DG AGRI

The European price sheet

Skimmed milk powder

2,774

EU · euro per tonne

Week +1.3%Year +15.7%

20/07/202626/07/2026

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 statePriceWeekYearWeeks filed
EU2,774+1.3%+15.7%
DEGermany€ 2,8500.0%+19.7%868
FRFrance€ 2,773+0.8%+19.4%873
NLNetherlands€ 2,820+1.8%+22.6%839
IEIreland80% unchanged€ 2,7770.0%+30.2%870
PLPoland€ 2,669+0.8%+6.5%875
BEBelgium€ 2,689+6.9%3.2%867
ESSpain€ 2,6073.0%+8.4%201
CZCzechia€ 2,8674.7%+5.0%870

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.

€ 2,084€ 3,131€ 4,17835 · 202147 · 20227 · 202418 · 202530 · 2026
30 · 2026
EU€ 2,774
DE€ 2,850
FR€ 2,773
NL€ 2,820
IE€ 2,777
PL€ 2,669
EUDEFRNLIEPL

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.

€ 1,538€ 2,798€ 4,0592010-012014-032018-042022-062026-07
2026-07
EU€ 2,725
DE€ 2,813
FR€ 2,707
NL€ 2,743
EUDEFRNL

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.

Source: European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, retrieved 2026-08-02. Open data, republished unchanged. Prices are as reported, converted from euro per 100 kg to euro per tonne and not otherwise adjusted.