The bargaining position of food suppliers is strengthening

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2020. 05. 18. 11:51

After a special retail tax of up to 2.5 percent of annual sales, traders have been given another hurdle: a new measure significantly restricts their freedom to negotiate a purchase price, the international law firm Baker & McKenzie points out. If left unchecked, they can easily get involved in suspicions of unfair, threatening influence.

The regulation based on the so-called Food Product Path Act (Tfmtv.) was supplemented with another tightening until the end of the emergency situation due to the coronavirus pandemic.