Large Retail Sector

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Adopted on 13/02/2013
Reference
NAT/571-EESC-2012-1886
Opinion Type
Own-initiative
Rapporteur
Mr Igor Šarmír
Employers - GR I
Slovakia
Plenary session number
487
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Retail
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The opinion aims to present a detailed analysis of the current state of commercial relations between food suppliers and the large retail sector, it also intends to put forward arguments demonstrating that the traditional concept of contractual freedom sometimes invoked by those opposing the regulation of commercial relations is, in practice, largely obsolete.

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