| The 150 tonnes of meat yielded from the boner ewes constitutes 0,177 percent of the volume of the sheep meat market which, according to the official figures of the Central Statistics Office, totals 84 000 tonnes. |
| According to the Irish authorities' letter of 14 April 1999 the aid of IEP 3 per animal enabled the meat plants to enable to dispose of 35 300 boner ewes. |
| In its decision to open the procedure, the Commission also expressed concern that meat obtained from boner ewes was sold on for human consumption. |
| The predominant commercial outlet for meat from boner ewes is supply to the catering trade. |
| The blast seemed to have a boner for fusion, respected no kind of boundaries. |
