Primary quota
3.—(1) The amount of primary quota shall be 90 per cent of the quantity (in this paragraph called “the base quantity”) of additional milk products sold by the producer determined by the Minister in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.
(2) The base quantity shall be, for each producer, the quantity of all additional milk products made from milk produced on his holding, and sold by him in one of the calendar years 1988, 1989 or 1990, whichever quantity is, in the opinion of the Minister, the greatest.
(3) In determining the base quantity, the Minister shall take into account of evidence provided by the producer as to the quantities referred to in subparagraph (2) above.