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By mission letter of 22 June 2004, the Minister of State, Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry, convened the group of experts provided for in the agreement signed on 17 June 2004 between the main operators in the large-scale distribution and industry sector. The mission letter invited to analyse the existing legislation (including the 1996 law, known as the "Galland" law), in legal terms and from an economic point of view, and then to make proposals for reform to facilitate relations between suppliers and distributors, to strengthen, in the interest of consumers, the mechanisms of price competition and to allow the prices of mass-market products to fall.
