On Thursday 7 December, the European Commission adopted new guidelines to clarify how to design joint sustainable development initiatives in agriculture that can benefit from a new exclusion from EU competition rules introduced by the new Common Agricultural Policy.
Article 210a of the ‘CMO Regulation’ (No. 1308/201) excludes certain restrictive agreements in the agricultural sector from the ban on cartels (established by Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU), on the...