E. Leclerc fined €38 million for missing commercial negotiation deadline with suppliers

2024-08-14 09:45:42

Manufacturers and distributors usually have up to 1yes Agreements are agreed every March, but the government brought forward the deadline for those talks to 2024 in the hope that price cuts on some food items can be passed on quickly to shops after a period of high inflation.

E.Leclerc’s European procurement center, Eurelec Trading SCRL, was fined €38,067,000. “62 breaches of its obligations under agreements with suppliers between January 15 and 31, 2024”DGCCRF is specified.

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Farmers tighten controls after crisis

It has tightened control over commercial negotiations by cracking down on fraud in an attempt to address farmers’ anger, who earlier this year took action by blocking roads and demanding the government “Good income”The farm crisis gave rise to the Equality Act, which was supposed to protect farmers’ pay, but almost one in five farm families live below the poverty line (compared to 13 percent nationwide).

The Egalim 1 and Egalim 2 laws, enacted in 2018 and 2021 respectively, aim to protect farmers’ remuneration from fierce price wars between supermarkets on the one hand and agro-industry distributors and suppliers on the other.

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In February, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced that he had found 124 contracts signed by manufacturers and distributors in commercial negotiations that did not respect the Egalim law and had issued an injunction to force the companies involved to comply with the law.

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