Agri Politics
New body needed to combat unfair trading practices - TD
The Government needs to give urgent attention to establishing an independent body to enforce the EU’s unfair trading practices directive...
Agri Politics
The Government needs to give urgent attention to establishing an independent body to enforce the EU’s unfair trading practices directive...
Agri Politics
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine is scheduled to meet with Christine Tacon, the UK’s Groceries...
Agri Politics
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that it will make a “detailed submission” to the public consultation on the...
Agri-Business
Michael Creed, The Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has announced the opening of a public consultation process on...
Beef
With Irish beef farmers currently supplying processors and retailers with produce for a price that is consistently below the cost...
Agri Politics
The newly-adopted EU directive on unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the food-supply chain “does not go far enough”, according to...
Agri Politics
Today’s formal adoption and overwhelming support by the European Parliament on the directive to tackle unfair trading practices in the...
Agri-Business
The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee endorsed new rules to better protect farmers against buyers’ unfair trading practices earlier today (Wednesday,...
Agri Politics
Political agreement on a new set of rules on unfair trading practices in the food-supply chain has been ratified by...
Agri-Business
The Government must decide now if a new regulatory body is needed to ban unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the...
Agri-Business
New draft rules to better protect farmers against buyers’ unfair trading practices were agreed by the European Parliament and Council’s...
Agri Politics
An agreement has been reached today (Wednesday, December 19) on rules to tackle unfair trading practices. As part of the...
Agri-Business
Negotiations on a new directive that will aim to protect farmers against buyers’ unfair trading practices (UTPs) will begin today...
Agri Politics
Discussions in the European Parliament on legislation to stop Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) in the food supply chain will intensify...
Beef
The proposed directive on unfair trading practices (UTPs) needs to be extended to cover the practices used by meat processors...
Agri-Business
The proposed directive on unfair trading practices (UTPs) is set to be the key focus of tomorrow’s meeting of the...
Agri Politics
Unfair trading practices (UTPs) pose “a serious threat” to farmers in the food supply chain and are “ultimately detrimental to...
Agri-Business
EU MEPs have insisted that unless pre-agreed, the buyer should not be allowed to sell products below the purchase price...