The objective of the text is to “preserve” the remuneration of farmers (illustration) – SICCOLI PATRICK / SIPA
It is the Minister of Agriculture who announces it. A bill aimed at “preserving” the remuneration of farmers will be debated in Parliament “from June” to strengthen a first legislative text, Julien Denormandie said on Wednesday.
“There was already a first law, the Egalim law, it changed things, it did not go to the end. We have just worked very hard to modify this law and there is a bill following all this work which will be debated in the National Assembly from June and I support it ”, declared the minister on the antenna of
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“The price of agricultural raw materials must be preserved”
This law proposal, prepared by the deputy of the majority Grégory Besson-Moreau and qualified as “Egalim 2” by the minister, “will say that the price of agricultural raw materials must be preserved. It must be done within the framework of contracts, with transparency, but this price of agricultural material must be preserved ”.
The Minister thus wishes to put an end to a “game of dupes between the industrialist and the large distribution which is done on the back of the farmer”, by “changing the rules of the game” within this relationship. He assured to have “learned the lessons of what did not work until now”.
Egalim’s ambition was to rebalance the balance of power in the annual negotiations between large-scale distribution and the agrifood industries, determining the price of products put on the shelves and on which a large part of the income of the farmers who provide the raw material (cereals, vegetables, meat, etc.) depends. etc.).
Several provisions
The bill, which incorporates the recommendations of the report by the former head of System U Serge Papin, provides for several provisions, in particular making multi-year contracts the standard for contracts for the sale of agricultural products between farmers and industrialists, and increasing transparency of the purchase cost of agricultural raw materials.
The objective of the law would be for the cost of this agricultural raw material to be excluded from commercial negotiations between manufacturers and large retailers. The mediator for agricultural trade relations said on Tuesday that the major brands in the agri-food industry had once again suffered, overall, from reductions in purchase prices by large-scale distribution at the end of the annual negotiations.