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EU UTP Directive 2019/633 on Unfair B2B Agri-food Practices: Scope, Prohibitions, Minimum Harmonisation, Enforcement, Transposition, and UK–EU Cross-border Developments

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Practice notes

This Practice Note outlines Directive (EU) 2019/633 of 17 April 2019 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain (the EU UTP Directive). It sets out the background, scope and enforcement of the EU UTP Directive. It also clarifies which practices are permissible where the supplier and buyer have clearly agreed them in advance, and identifies those trading behaviours deemed unfair in all circumstances. The EU UTP Directive was adopted on 17 April 2019, Member States had to transpose it by 1 May 2021 and apply the measures by 1 November 2021. The Directive’s purpose is to protect weaker suppliers in the agriculture and food supply chain from stronger buyers.

Background

Over the last three decades, the business-to-business (B2B) food and non-food supply chain across the EU has been shaped by increased concentration of bargaining power and vertical integration, the emergence of international buying alliances among retailers, and the growth of retailers’ own-brand (private label) products. These dynamics have resulted in unfair trading practices along the B2B food supply chain. The EU UTP Directive therefore seeks to protect farmers and farmers’ organisations...

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