Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 am
Eileen Lynch (Fine Gael)
On unfair trading practices, I understand that this is a regulation to enforce the existing directive to allow greater co-operation between enforcement bodies within the various member states. What actual power will the regulator have when it comes to legal cases being taken? I appreciate that co-operation exists and information is shared. Also, if a general unfair trading practice emerges at a Union level, the Department looks at different elements such as conformity of language, etc. in terms of notification and highlighting these things. If there is an unfair trading legal case at either a national or European level then what are the powers of compulsion here from one enforcement to another? In particular I mean from the country where the enforcement Act originates.
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