The European Commission has launched a probe into Coca-Cola over potential violations to competition rules. The news comes as debate over implementation of the bloc’s approach to Unfair Trade Practices (UTPs) intensifies, with retailers flagging the negotiating...
Ireland has opened a public consultation on the primary legislation needed to establish a new Office of a National Food Ombudsman or Regulator. “I am fully committed to ensuring fairness, equity and transparency,” the country’s Minister for Agriculture,...
Meat and livestock producers in the European Union (EU), especially smaller farmers, will be watching Brussels closely early next year, now that EU agriculture and rural development commissioner Phil Hogan has promised to protect them against the market...
EU farming body Copa-Cogeca has called for strong measures, including improved CAP payments and efforts to fight unfair trading practices, to increase profits in the sheep meat sector.
EU agriculture and rural development commissioner Phil Hogan wants a review of evidence before Brussels seriously considers legislation to tackle unfair trading practices in the food industry.
The European Commission has been urged to introduce legislation to clamp down on unfair supply chain trading practices at a high-level summit in Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava.
A report from the EU Commission on ways to improve the functionality of the region’s food chain concludes that sweeping changes to the Supply Chain Initiative need to be made, according to EU farming body Copa and Cogeca.
