The conference of the chairs of the European parliament committees finally agreed at the end of May that it should be the agriculture committee which reviews the draft directive on unfair trading practices within the food supply chain (see EUROPE 12002). That decision was formalised on Thursday 7 June.
The rapporteur will be Paolo De Castro (S&D, Italy). The internal market committee, which considered that the matter fell within its ambit, will only be “associated”, with...