In 2008/2009 the subvention amounts 386,234 t milk in 26 member states. The allowance of the European Commission was 74.687 Mio. Euros. The three best countries are Poland (14.06 Mio. Euros), France (13.53 Mio. Euros), Sweden (9.03 Mio. Euros) and United Kingdom (8.21 Mio. Euros). Germany has the fifth place (7,17 Mio. Euros).

But looking at the rank depending on per-capita consumption of the european member states, Sweden has the maximum consumption with 4.67 l per capita. Germany has the 14. place with 0.45 l per capita.

consumption of school milk in EU in 2008/2009
Rank depending on Euro	Rank depending on per-capita consumption	Member State	Total Wholemilk equivalent in 1.000t	per-capita consumption in Liter
1	4	Poland	77,541	2.03
2	7	France	75,398	4.38
3	1	Sweden	42,848	4.67
4	9	Great Britain	46,314	0.75
5	14	Germany	36.746	0,45
6	8	Romania	23,123	1.08
7	2	Finland	23,305	4.38
8	6	Portugal	12,774	1.20
9	5	Denmark	9,746	1.78
10	23	Spanien	7,190	0.15
11	24	Italy	1,795	0.03
12	17	Slovakia	2,003	0.37
13	10	Ireland	3,049	0.73
14	15	Hungary	3,756	0.44
15	16	Belgium	4,372	0.41
16	13	Austria	3,992	0.48
17	20	Netherlands	3,473	0.21
18	3	Estonia	3,045	2.27
19	22	Czech Republic	1,729	0.16
20	12	Latvia	1,566	0.68
21	11	Cyprus	0,754	0.71
22	21	Lithuania	0,741	0.19
23	18	Malta	0,137	0.33
24	19	Luxembourg	0,123	0.31
25	26	Bulgaria	0,017	0.002
26	25	Slovenia	0,010	0.01
27	27	Greece	0	0
		EU 27	386.233
Source: Federal Ministry of Agriculture

The European School Milk Scheme is intended to encourage consumption among children of healthy dairy products containing important vitamins and minerals. The scheme does not only have a nutritional character but also an educational character and contributes therefore greatly to the fight against obesity among children. The School Milk Scheme is there to provide quality products for children, to contribute to a healthy way of living and to nutritional education with a better knowledge on products.

Under the slogan "Milk – Drink it up", the Commission launched an EU school milk information campaign which aims to raise awareness of the benefits of milk consumption and the availability of EU funds to schools. As part of this campaign, young people will be invited to take part in a photo competition on the theme "Milk power". More information you can find here: http://drinkitup.europa.eu