2024-01-20 14:15:42
The State “will increase controls from next week” linked to ongoing negotiations between distributors and farmers, in order to ensure the latter a decent income, announced Saturday the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, once morest a backdrop of growls from the sector. “From next week, the general directorate for consumption and fraud repression (DGCCRF) will increase controls on current commercial negotiations to ensure the preservation of the income of agricultural producers,” assured Bruno Le Maire during a trip to Flavigny, in the Marne, on the occasion of the feast of Saint-Vincent, patron saint of winegrowers.
“We will be uncompromising with distributors who do not respect the provisions of the Egalim law,” he added. “I don’t want these negotiations to result in a weakening of producers’ income.” This text, voted in 2018 at the end of the General Assembly of Food, provides that the prices paid to farmers take into account their production costs, to prevent them from selling at a loss. The first round of negotiations between supermarket brands and some of their agro-industry suppliers ended on Monday.
We must “enforce” this law
At the end of this, the Association of Produced Food Products Companies (Adepale) said it was “worried” regarding “the future of the Egalim laws (…), since large-scale distribution demonstrates during these negotiations a low sensitivity to the protection of agricultural raw materials. Saturday morning, the president of the Young Farmers union repeated on Europe 1 that it was necessary to “enforce” this law, while demonstrations of discontent from the profession are increasing.
On Friday, the Elysée indicated that the president Emmanuel Macron had “asked the Minister of the Interior to instruct the prefects to go this weekend to meet farmers” and their unions, “as close as possible to the field”.
In France, as in Germany, Romania and Poland, farmers’ demonstrations have been increasing in recent weeks. The executive is worried that the movement will spread once morest the backdrop of an offensive by a National Rally which it accuses of “blowing on the embers”. Last week, the Egalim law found itself for the first time at the heart of a legal dispute between a Médoc winegrower and his traders due to a production sales price that the farmer considers “abusively low” .
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