Stop press: adjudicator will have power to impose fines – Minister, “We have heard the views of the stakeholders”

. The ‘groceries adjudicator’, to be appointed next year, will be able to fine the country’s top chains if they use their dominant position to treat farmers and other suppliers unfairly. The maximum fine will be set on the recommendation of the first adjudicator, within six months of new legislation being passed. It was proposed [...]

Posted by admin on December 4th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

Fair Deal Award presented to MP Andrew George at the Annual Conference of the Family Farmers’ Association

  A Fair Deal award was presented to Andrew George MP during the FFA’s annual October conference organised by livestock farmer Pippa Woods. On the Westminster committee room Cornish farmer, Fair Deal Council member and video-maker Michael Hart, presented the granite based award made by Sculpture Designer, a co-operative of lead crystal craftsmen formed when [...]

Posted by admin on November 27th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Awards, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, FDF Council, Groceries Supply Code of Practice

Will government once more bow to the supermarket lobby?

The House of Commons business committee recommended that the adjudicator should have the power to award fines, but this has been left out of the bill     In October, activists from the Cross-cutting Group set up by MP Andrew George Fair Deal Food awardee, staged a demonstration at the Department for Business, Innovation and [...]

Posted by admin on November 20th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

Supermarkets are perfectly capable of policing themselves . . . ?

The British Retail Consortium has long argued that the sector is perfectly capable of policing itself, but countless anecdotal evidence and documents such as the NFU’s Catalyst for Change report (link leads to pdf file) suggest that is far from the truth.    Michael Barker, editor of the Fresh Produce Journal, surmises suppliers won’t begrudge [...]

Posted by admin on September 2nd, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

British milk – and now fruit and veg ‘endangered species’: London Zoo meeting

. The Fresh Produce Journal reports on the NFU’s Catalyst For Change report, presented at London Zoo yesterday. . The NFU said that fewer British-grown tomatoes, cucumbers, salad onions, mushrooms and broad, runner and dwarf beans will be grown because of “a growing imbalance in the retail supply chain”. That is polite-speak for supermarket bullying. [...]

Posted by admin on July 14th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

Information from DEFRA minister Caroline Spelman – 11th July

. After writing “I hope you heard about the five million pound package we announced” and finding that I had not – nor could a websearch reveal any reference to this by James Paice - Caroline Spelman emailed FDF a copy of this letter to colleagues sent before the Westminster meeting this week, in which the £5 [...]

Posted by admin on July 12th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Groceries Supply Code of Practice

Celebrating MP Andrew George’s 12 year quest: a Fair Deal for British food producers

. At the Family Farmers’ Association meeting in Westminster, on the afternoon of October 17th, Andrew George will be presented with a Fair Deal Award by Cornish farmer Michael Hart, Fair Deal Council member. . His track record . In his own words during a parliamentary debate on the grocery sector which he secured in [...]

Posted by admin on June 29th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Awards, Fair Deal Food, FDF Council, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

Groceries Code Adjudicator: the verdict of Private Eye’s columnist

. “The proposal appears hopelessly flawed”  . The business, innovation and skills minister Baroness Wilcox points out that the adjudicator’s direct responsibility is restricted to enforcing the code which concerns the relationship between retailers – supermarkets and their direct suppliers. The bill gives no redress against intermediaries – middlemen  . This is “chilling news” for [...]

Posted by admin on June 17th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Farmgate price, Groceries Supply Code of Practice

Report considered in the light of Fair Deal Food’s perspective

  Farming Online reports that a five year research project by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England has examined 19 locations across England and identified over 2,500 local food businesses, including over 800 outlets and 1,700 producers. From field to fork, the report CPRE released on Monday, focusses on the role government food [...]

Posted by admin on June 14th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Farmgate price, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’ focusses on the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill announced in the Queen’s speech

  By chance I actually heard part of the programme and the speech in which it was announced that the government’s programme will – at last - include the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill, which is ‘designed to ensure supermarkets deal – as the Queen said – “fairly and lawfully” with suppliers’. Andrew Opie of the British [...]

Posted by admin on May 9th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets
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