Download or read book UNFAIR TRADING PRACTICES IN THE AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN written by ELISA. PAREDIS and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unfair Trading Practices Food Supply Chb written by Bert Keirsbilck and published by Intersentia. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a wide-spread consensus that UTPs occur throughout the food supply chain. Unfair trading practices (UTPs) can be defined as practices which grossly deviate from good commercial conduct, are contrary to good faith and fair dealing and are unilaterally imposed by one trading partner on its counterparty. Some Member States, such as France, Belgium and the UK, have already adopted legislation specifically prohibiting such practices (in the food and/or non-food supply chain). In addition, various self-regulatory initiatives exist.0In April 2019, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain. A Commission Proposal of April 2018 (COM(2018) 173 final) was substantially amended. To improve farmers? and small and medium sized businesses? position in the food supply chain, the Directive bans certain unfair trading practices including late payments for perishable food products; last minute order cancellations; unilateral changes to contracts; refusal to enter into a written contract; returning unsold or wasted products; payment for buyer?s marketing. Each Member State has to designate a competent authority to enforce these rules and these authorities must have the power to both launch investigations and fine operators who break the rules. The Member States now have two years to implement the Directive.00This book compiles the various papers presented at the ?2nd UTP Roundtable? organized by the CONSUMER COMPETITION MARKET (CCM) institute of the KU Leuven on 28 June 2018. It entails a critical analysis of the final text of the EU Directive, the current state of play and the different regulatory options at national level by 2021.
Download or read book Unfair Trading Practices in the Business to business Food Supply Chain written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfair trade practices imposed by the stronger party to a contract can have a profound impact on the functioning of the market, increasing costs and reducing revenues of the parties that experience them. This background paper reviews unfair trade practices that can appear on any side of the B2B (Business-to-Business) transaction, in any sector of the market. Recently unfair trading practices have been of particular interest to the EU in relation to food supply chains. Briefing concludes that any consideration concerning possible future action in the area of unfair trading practices must consider a number of issues such as: whether or not legislative action is needed, and if so, what scope and form should it take. However, the key element of any action is to ensure its subsequent effective enforcement.
Download or read book Unfair Trading Practices in Food Supply Chains Regulatory Responses and Institutional Alternatives in the Light of the New EU Directive written by Fabrizio Cafaggi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfair trade practices (UTPs) can refer to individual firms or, more often, concern the entire chain. The article contends that UTPs in supply chains present specific features; as a consequence, they require specific rules and remedies. Power concentration in food global chains often leads to abuse by shifting risks and costs to weaker contractual partners, who are not necessarily the most efficient actors to control risks and to manage costs related to production and distribution processes. Inappropriate exercise of market and contractual power may bring about inefficient allocation of tasks together with undesirable distributional consequences. A distinction should be made between isolated UTPs, whose effects mostly remain within the bilateral contractual relation, and systemic UTPs, whose effects directly or indirectly spread along the chain. The latter create much more severe consequences, both distributional and exclusionary. By examining the recently adopted EU Directive on UTPs in agri-food chains and its complementarities in respect to private regulation, the authors develop a conceptual framework that might be useful to complement existing and forthcoming regulation at EU and national level with rules reflecting the supply chain dimension of UTPs. More particularly, the authors suggest that both distributional and exclusionary systemic effects should be considered in a) the definition of the practice, (b) the type of prohibition and the extent to which agreed terms may allow the use of some of the practices, (c) the nature and scope of liability of the infringer(s), (d) the use of presumptions concerning the practices' effects, (e) the choice and content of sanctions and remedies. These distinctions fit within the discretionary space allowed to MSs when implementing the directive, making the implementation more effective and consistent with its regulatory goals.
Download or read book Pass through of Unfair Trading Practices in EU Food Supply Chains written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the results of the research project "Pass-Through of Unfair Trading Practices in EU Food Supply Chains: Methodology and Empirical Application". The research was funded by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC). The purpose of the project is to design and test a monitoring system of unfair trading practices (UTP) along the agri-food supply chain. The investigation has special focus on assessment of the "pass-through effect", defined as the consequences for the entire supply chain of UTPs adopted in a specific transaction.
Download or read book Unfair Trading Practices in the Business to business Food Supply Chain written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfair trade practices (UTPs) are practices imposed by a stronger party in a contractual relationship that grossly deviate from good commercial conduct and are contrary to good faith and fair dealing. UTPs are present at a national level, but they can also exert a negative impact on developing trade among Member States, which in turn may hinder the development of the internal market.
Download or read book Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Chain written by Hanna Schebesta and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12 April 2018, the European Commission published a Proposal for a directive on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain, COM(2018) 173 final ('UTPD'). Currently, the European Parliament and the Council review the proposal. In this paper, we provide an overview of the issue of Unfair trading practices ('UTPs') in the supply chain, the content of the original proposal and its proposed amendments and subsequently analyze the different proposed regulations from a legal perspective. We show that, despite the fact that the proposal certainly pursues noble goals, it has important flaws and shortcomings: (1) it is questionable whether Art. 43 TFEU is a valid choice as a legal basis as the scope of the proposal targets the entire food sector. Arguably it can hence not be adequately based exclusively on the Common Agricultural Policy ('CAP') instruments legal basis. (2) UTPs rules are complementary to EU competition law, which may send ripples to the overall structure of EU law. The UTPs mentioned cover situations of unequal bargaining power - the focus is on the bilateral power of balance between market participants, as opposed to competition law rules on abuses of dominance that are geared to address practices that have an effect on the overall market. (3) It is unclear why and on which basis the respective practices were chosen and if this static approach allows for sufficient flexibility to also cover other UTPs that might evolve over time. It is, however, likely that the Proposal lays the foundation for a growing area of EU law, which increasingly regulates practices in B2B relationships.
Download or read book Green Paper on Unfair Trading Practices in the Business to business Food and Non food Supply Chain in Europe written by European Commission and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislation Covering Business to business Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Supply Chain in Central and Eastern European Countries written by Anna Piszcz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Supply Chains written by Ján Pokrivčák and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counterproductive Regulation The EU s Mis Adventures in Regulating Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Supply Chain written by Victoria Daskalova and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2018, the Europe ...
Download or read book Comparative Analysis of the Implementation of the Unfair Trading Practices Directive in the Business to business Agricultural and Food Supply Chain written by M.B. Westerveld and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law written by Ioannis Lianos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food industry is a notoriously complex economic sector that has not received the attention it deserves within legal scholarship. Production and distribution of food is complex because of its polycentric character (as it operates at the intersection of different public policies) and its dynamic evolution and transformation in the last few decades (from technological and governance perspectives). This volume introduces the global value chain approach as a useful way to analyse competition law and applies it to the operations of food chains and the challenges of their regulation. Together, the chapters not only provide a comprehensive mapping of a vast comparative field, but also shed light on the intricacies of the various policies and legal fields in operation. The book offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for competition authorities, companies and academics, and fills a massive gap in the competition policy literature dealing with global value chains and food.
Download or read book Innovation and Market Power in the Food Supply Chain written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20th September 2019, the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) and Assonime (Italian Association of Joint Stock Companies) jointly organised a workshop within the framework of the Florence Competition Programme (FCP) and the Florence School of Regulation, Communications & Media (FSR C&M). The event took place at the EUI campus in Florence. The workshop discussed the roles of innovation and market power in the food supply chain. It started with a keynote speech delivered by Tassos Haniotis, Director for Strategy and Policy Analysis at DG Agriculture of the European Commission. There were two panels, which dealt with: (i) the impact of innovation on the food supply chain, and (ii) the role played by the new rules on unfair trading practices. A roundtable discussing the impact of e-commerce on the retail food industry, and the challenges currently faced by public policy ended the workshop. The event gathered several different stakeholders, including competition enforcers as well as representatives from academia, industry, law and economic consulting firms. The diversity of views ensured a lively debate. The present policy brief summarizes the main points that were raised during the discussion and seeks to stimulate further debate.
Download or read book Sustainable Food Supply Chains written by Riccardo Accorsi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entrepreneurs in the design and optimization of food production-distribution systems and operations and drives change toward sustainable food ecosystems. With synthesized coverage of the academic literature, this book integrates the quantitative models and tools that address each step of food supply chain operations to provide readers with easy access to support-decision quantitative and practicable methods. Broken into three parts, the book begins with an introduction and problem statement. The second part presents quantitative models and tools as an integrated framework for the food supply chain system and operations design. The book concludes with the presentation of case studies and applications focused on specific food chains. Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies will be an indispensable resource for food scientists, practitioners and graduate students studying food systems and other related disciplines. Contains quantitative models and tools that address the interconnected areas of the food supply chain Synthesizes academic literature related to sustainable food supply chains Deals with interdisciplinary fields of research (Industrial Systems Engineering, Food Science, Packaging Science, Decision Science, Logistics and Facility Management, Supply Chain Management, Agriculture and Land-use Planning) that dominate food supply chain systems and operations Includes case studies and applications
Download or read book Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains written by John Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, oilseeds, pulses and sugar. It outlines the underlying changes that are currently occurring, which will have an influence on the direction of future food supply chains, and provides some solutions to current food security problems. Based on an analysis of total regulation in the 1950s-60s through to deregulation during the 1980-90s, as well as post-deregulation, it focuses on liberal trade and deregulation as a more successful solution to creating efficiencies in food supply chains and distribution. The author highlights a common thread of either farmers using government for vested-interest intervention, or autocratic governments seeking market and supply-chain power. The book examines the role of government after 70 years of food supply chain intervention. It discusses the role of commercial ‘trade’ markets and cluster industries and how these can quickly disintegrate when price distortions occur. The author studies both food importing and exporting countries and concludes that comingled commoditization of food has led to increased hoarding, corruption, and dependence on food aid. He argues that a competitive food supply chain that has minimum intervention is more likely to provide future food security. In conclusion the book emphasizes that adequate rewards, competition, and striving for supply chain efficiencies are the essences of sustainable food security.
Download or read book The Functioning of the Food Supply Chain and Its Effect on Food Prices in the European Union written by Lina Bukeviciute and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sharp fluctuations in food price inflation at a time of great uncertainty about the economic outlook have raised questions about the functioning of the European food supply chain. While the observed changes in food prices in EU Member States can be linked to developments in the global demand and supply for agricultural commodities, inefficiencies in the functioning of the food supply chain, in terms of competition and regulation, may have played an important role as well. In particular, an analysis of the transmission mechanisms linking agricultural commodity prices with producer and consumer prices shows that the shock caused by the upsurge in agricultural commodities and energy prices in the second half of 2007 and the first half of 2008 was absorbed differently across EU Member States. Crosscountry differences in the regulatory framework appear to have contributed to this fragmentation of the European Single Market. Moreover, there are indications of differences in the conditions of competition across Member States. Finally, consolidation is taking place throughout the food supply chain. While such consolidation can lead to efficiency gains, it may also worsen the conditions of competition to the detriment of consumers and businesses. Keywords: Food, regulation, market structure, competition, pricing. -- (provided by publisher).