CASE COMMENTS: RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES - RETAIL DISTRIBUTION

Retail distribution - Abuse of purchasing power: The UK Competition Commission issues a new Groceries Code of practice (The groceries market)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. UK Competition Commission, Code of practice on supermarkets' dealings with suppliers – UK Competition Commission, The groceries (supply chain practices) market investigation order, 4 August 2009 (revised on 28 August 2009) Are our English friends losing their legendary phlegm in the face of the abuse of purchasing power by the superm arkets? The question deserves to be asked. Indeed, in its Groceries (Supply chain practices) market investigation Order of 4 August 2009, the Competition Commission has decided to implement a new Code of Good Practices, stricter than the current Code, in order to regulate the practices of large retailers. It should be

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Laurent Roberval, Retail distribution - Abuse of purchasing power: The UK Competition Commission issues a new Groceries Code of practice (The groceries market), 28 August 2009, Concurrences N° 4-2009, Art. N° 29280, pp. 126-127

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