Large supermarkets and family businesses receive the first fines from the Ministry of Agriculture for violating the Food Chain Act
The Ministry of Agriculture will publish this Thursday the list of the first sanctions after the entry into force of the Food Chain Law, which includes fines for 69 supermarkets and food industry actors. Notable among them are Carrefour, Dia, J. García Carrión or the Galician hypermarket chain Froiz.
The fines, which come from the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA), an agency headed by Luis Planas, can reach up to €10,000 in some cases, although the law includes sanctions of up to €1 million in the most severe cases. serious non-compliance or recidivism. In concrete terms, the Carrefour shopping centers were fined 3,001 euros for non-compliance with payment terms, the same fine as Distribuciones Froiz. In the case of Dia Retail Spain, there are also two fines for skipping payment periods of 3,0001 and 3,899 euros respectively.
For its part, the J. García Carrión group was fined EUR 9,147.81 for failure to comply with payment deadlines, while Pistachos de la Mancha was fined two, one of EUR 10,449.24 for failure to comply with payment deadlines and another of 3,001 euros for non-compliance with payment terms. formalizing the food contracts in writing, as noted in the first-quarter quarterly release of sanctions that this paper collects.
Source: La Verdad
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