Key Benefits:
Publics concerned: agricultural producers and their customers when they are subject to an obligation to contract under Article L. 631-24 of the Rural Code and Maritime Fisheries.
Purpose: implementation of mediation of agricultural contracts.
Entry into force: immediate.
Notice: the Act No. 2010-874 of 27 July 2010 the modernization of agriculture and fisheries allows inter-professional organizations to define a contractual framework, by product or product group, impinging itself to trade relations between different links in a sector.
The law also provides for the possibility for the co-contractors to refer a mediator to any dispute arising in connection with the conclusion or execution of a contract under the aforementioned provisions.
The decree defines the conditions for the appointment of this ombudsman of agricultural contracts and the missions entrusted to him.
References: the text amended by this decree can be consulted, in its drafting, on the website Légifrance (http://www.legifrance.fr).
The Prime Minister,
On the report of the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry and the Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Rurality and Land Management,
In view of the rural and maritime fisheries code, including article L. 631-24,
Decrete:
It is created in chapter I of title III of Book VI of the Rural Code and Maritime Fisheries a section 1 as follows:
“Section 1
“General provisions
"Art.D. 631-1.-The mediator referred to in section L. 631-24 is appointed by joint order of the Minister for Agriculture and the Minister for Economics.
"Art.D. 631-2.-The ombudsman may take any initiatives to promote the conciliation of the positions of the parties to the contracts referred to in Article L. 631-24. It may issue recommendations on changes in regulations, which it transmits to the Minister for Agriculture and to the Minister responsible for the economy. »
The Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, the Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Rurality and Land Management, and the Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, responsible for the trade, crafts, small and medium-sized enterprises, tourism, services, liberal professions and consumption, are responsible, each of them,
Done on 5 April 2011.
François Fillon
By the Prime Minister:
Minister of Agriculture, Food,
Fisheries, Rural
and landscaping,
Bruno Le Maire
Minister of Economy,
finance and industry,
Christine Lagarde
Secretary of State
to the Minister of Economy,
finance and industry,
responsible for trade, crafts,
small and medium-sized enterprises,
tourism, services,
liberal professions and consumption,
Frédéric Lefebvre
