Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Angela Robinson:
The charter is there for everybody to see for anybody who wants to commit. There is a call out for everybody to sign up to the charter. It was launched in June 2023. A number of sectors have already signed up to it. It is an ongoing process. The EPA, which is leading on this, is asking all sectors and all enterprises involved in the food supply chain to sign up to that charter. It is an ongoing, dynamic document and the EPA is always engaging. It has a forum and is setting up fora under the charter to engage with all of those actors in the supply chain. In the previous charter, which was based on the retail sector, it had an engagement and a forum dealing with the measurement and the commitments being made under the charter.