Romanian Food Indus Owners Claim Store Chain Intervention Against Good Practice Code

"Large store chains «swayed», through means that go beyond institutionalized social dialogue, clerks or high dignitaries to delay by all means necessary, to cripple and, finally, to block the draft Government Ordinance promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, previously tasked with the role of mediator between suppliers and retailers. This explains how a draft Emergency Ordinance, approved by the Government, publicly displayed for three weeks, failed to arrive at the Official Journal and no clerk can say what happened to it," said a press release issued by owners in the food industry.

At the same time, owners are displeased with the attitudes of some of the MPs who, "out of the desire to be the ones dubbed cheapener of foods in Romania,” neglect consulting social partners.

The owners asked Prime Minister Emil Boc to take responsibility for the Government Ordinance in the format agreed within talks with social dialogue partners.

In addition, the owners state the need for the enactment of an Emergency Ordinance, and then a Law, in the context of a constant negative evolution of relations within the local food commerce.