On Monday 17 December, the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union proposed that a new negotiating session with the European Parliament be convened on Wednesday 19 December on the proposal for a Directive on avoidance of unfair trading practices in the food supply chain (see EUROPE 12158, 12152).
This comes as something of a surprise. The EU institutions failed to reach a compromise on the proposal on Wednesday 12 December in Strasbourg and had planned to resume...