Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein)
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That is a bit clearer now. Is there other activity going on at the European Commission level around antitrust and anticompetitive practices? The global food market at the moment is a broken system in that it is concentrated in large monopolies. In parallel to this, then, is there other work ongoing at the European Commission level looking at anticompetitive practices within the food sector, something similar to the Facebook case? Is that sort of work happening at an EU level?

My other point goes back to those trade agreements on sustainability. Will the same guidelines apply to actors outside of the EU in respect of sustainability practices? We do not want the problem of cheap goods coming in from outside of the EU if farmers and so on are going into agreements here and then the market is flooded with cheaper products. What sort of protection measures are put in place to prevent that happening?