Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy has criticised the ongoing delays with the establishment of a food ombudsman or meat regulator saying...
October 7, 2021
The European Commission has announced that it has opened infringement procedures against 12 member states for failing to transpose EU...
July 28, 2021
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue today (Wednesday, April 28) signed a Statutory Instrument which gives effect...
April 28, 2021
A public consultation on the primary legislation needed to establish a new Office of a National Food Ombudsman or regulator...
April 26, 2021
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is “currently taking a two-step approach” in the establishment of the office...
January 28, 2021
The EU’s unfair trading practices directive must be transposed into Irish law by May 1, with efforts currently underway to...
January 21, 2021
The European Commission is seeking feedback from the public on unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the agriculture and food supply...
November 9, 2020
There has been a great deal of discussion during recent weeks and months over what the fate of live exports...
June 19, 2020
The Government needs to give urgent attention to establishing an independent body to enforce the EU’s unfair trading practices directive...
May 21, 2020
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine is scheduled to meet with Christine Tacon, the UK’s Groceries...
November 4, 2019
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that it will make a “detailed submission” to the public consultation on the...
October 20, 2019
Michael Creed, The Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has announced the opening of a public consultation process on...
October 18, 2019
With Irish beef farmers currently supplying processors and retailers with produce for a price that is consistently below the cost...
March 26, 2019
The newly-adopted EU directive on unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the food-supply chain “does not go far enough”, according to...
March 18, 2019
Today’s formal adoption and overwhelming support by the European Parliament on the directive to tackle unfair trading practices in the...
March 12, 2019
The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee endorsed new rules to better protect farmers against buyers’ unfair trading practices earlier today (Wednesday,...
January 23, 2019
Political agreement on a new set of rules on unfair trading practices in the food-supply chain has been ratified by...
January 17, 2019
The Government must decide now if a new regulatory body is needed to ban unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the...
January 7, 2019
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