A Fair Food Chain for All

A Fair Food Chain for All

Creating Fairness in the Food Supply Chain

3^rd 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)