Agriculture: The French Competition Council scrutinises the new organisation of fruits and vegetables market (Fruits and vegetables market)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Conc. conc. opinion n° 08-A-07 of 7 May 2008 on the economic organisation of the fruit and vegetable sector Within the agricultural markets, the fruit and vegetable market is characterised by its specific economic characteristics highlighted in the report by the Conseil d'analyse économique on the regulation of relations between suppliers and distributors published on 21 November 2000 and the work of the group of experts set up on the relationship between industry and trade, known as the "Canivet report", made public on 18 October 2004. It is characterized by the rigidity and atomicity of supply, with more than sixty thousand farmers producing fruit or