Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the consultation process with regard to the establishment of a working group between his Department and the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation which was following on from the unfair trading practices directive has been launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43457/19]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The working group on transposition and enforcement of  Directive (EU) 2019/633 on Unfair Trading Practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain (UTP Directive) was set up in April this year and has met seven times to date.

I launched a public stakeholder consultation on the transposition of the UTP Directive on Friday 18 October last, with a closing date for submissions of 13 December 2019. The consultation document can be found on my Department's website at the following address: www.agriculture.gov.ie/customerservice/publicconsultations/.  

The launch of this public consultation fulfils one of my Department’s commitments under the Beef Sector Agreement of 15 September and I urge all interested groups and individuals to contribute to the public consultation.