The agricultural emergency law plans to bring forward the deadline for commercial negotiations from March 1 to January 31 for companies with a global turnover of less than 350 million euros. This anticipation, requested by the smallest companies in order to have reserved negotiation time, has already been tested in 2025, notes the executive.
Any questioning of the provisions of the Egalim law of 2022, which provide for the possibility for manufacturers to limit themselves to declaring the evolution of these costs and having it certified by an independent third party, is however refuted at this stage by the government by invoking business secrecy and the unfavorable parliamentary context.
Despite the absence of large-scale distribution, the meeting made it possible to take stock of the exogenous increases in costs suffered by farmers and manufacturers due to the climate and geopolitical crisis.
The government indicates that the two fundamental requirements demanded by the FCD were retained by the agricultural emergency law adopted this summer, which nevertheless awaits the necessary texts to be fully applied.
This absence is considered disappointing, unnecessary and paradoxical by the executive, while large distributors insist on the need to differentiate the treatment of SMEs and large multinationals.
Transparency on the costs of agricultural raw materials constitutes the condition for the application of the automatic price revision clauses provided for by law and approved by agroindustrialists and large distributors.
Distributors and manufacturers were invited this Monday, November 2 to Bercy ahead of their annual price negotiations.