A Fair Food Chain for All

A Fair Food Chain for All

 3rd December 2013; 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

EP, Paul-Henri Spaak, room P7C050

 

 

Programme

 

12:30 p.m.      Sandwich lunch and networking

 

  1:00 p.m.      Opening remarks

Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, MEP (EPP, PT)

Paulo Gouveia, COPA-COGECA

 

1:15 p.m.        How to have fair food chains in the EU?

Marc Rosiers, COPA-COGECA

 

                        The UK experience and the GSCOP

Christine Tacon, UK Adjudicator

 

The Portuguese initiatives to curb unfair trading practices

David Gouveia,GPP, Portuguese Government

                       

The Norwegian proposal for an Act on the food supply chain

Erling Hjelmeng, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law

 

                        Unfair trading practices and its impact on farming

Miguel Minguet, Spanish farmer

 

Fair supply chains: relationship between competition law and sustainable farming”

Mairead McGuiness, MEP (EPP, IE)

 

 

  2:20 p.m       Debate

 

  2:50 p.m.      Conclusions and key remarks

Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, MEP(EPP, PT)