The Interrelationship Between Agricultural and Competition Law
No hay miniatura disponible
Fecha
Título de la revista
ISSN de la revista
Título del volumen
Editor
Resumen
Descripción
In the last two decades, the common agricultural policy (CAP) has been moving
its main area from direct market interventions to direct payments. As these changes
have disclosed highly asymmetrical bargaining power of different stakeholders in the
agrifood chain, the proposed legal acts aknowledge greater importance to producers'
organisations. However, agreements, decisions and concerted practices of
undertakings and their associations are subject also to the competition law. The
paper analyses the recent developments of competition law in EU with regard to the
agricultural producers' organisations. As competition aspects will play a greater role
in the future CAP, more conflicts between the general (agricultural) policy support to
producers' organisations and individual provisions of competition law provisions may
be expected.