On Tuesday 10 July, the European Parliament’s committee on agriculture, in Brussels, will examine the draft report by Paolo De Castro (S&D, Italy), which strengthens the proposal on unfair trading practice (UTP) in the food supply chain (see EUROPE 12052, 12056).
Although the rapporteur largely supports the proposal, he nonetheless proposes several amendments: - extension of the scope to suppliers in the food supply chain which are not SMEs, in order to include farmers’ organisations; -...