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Publication date: 1 September 1991

Simon A. Harris and Alan Swinbank

As a result of a badly conceived farm policy the bulkof the EC′s dried grape crop of 1981/82 was soldinto intervention. Minimum import prices (MIPs)were introduced, throwing the…

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As a result of a badly conceived farm policy the bulk of the EC′s dried grape crop of 1981/82 was sold into intervention. Minimum import prices (MIPs) were introduced, throwing the import trade into confusion, and distorting the market for dried grapes. MIPs meant that the competitive advantage of low cost suppliers was lost, and the importer′s traditional skills of buying cheap were thwarted. Failure to distinguish between types of product, quality and presentation, led to further difficulties. Even marginal failure to respect the MIP led to the application of substantial countervailing charges. In February 1988 a ruling of the European Court gave some relief to the beleaguered trade.

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British Food Journal, vol. 93 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 March 1994

Alan Swinbank

Examines Article 30 EC which provides for the free movement of goodsbetween the member states of the European Union. Following the Cassis deDijon case the Commission of the…

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Examines Article 30 EC which provides for the free movement of goods between the member states of the European Union. Following the Cassis de Dijon case the Commission of the European Communities articulated the principle of mutual recognition under which products lawfully manufactured and marketed in one member state should have unrestricted access to the markets of all member states. It now appears that Article 30 freedoms do not depend on the coupled requirement of manufacture and marketing, and that these freedoms would apply to any products lawfully marketed in the member states. This being so, Third Country products can presumably benefit from Article 30 freedoms, though many authors had previously thought they could not. Nonetheless much uncertainty remains regarding the application of mutual recognition to Third Country products.

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British Food Journal, vol. 96 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 March 1983

Safety precautions in the use of raw materials, in manufacturing and processing, marketing and enforcement of food and drug law on purity and quality may appear nowadays to be…

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Safety precautions in the use of raw materials, in manufacturing and processing, marketing and enforcement of food and drug law on purity and quality may appear nowadays to be largely a matter of routine, with manufacturers as much involved and interested in maintaining a more or less settled equilibrium as the enforcement agencies. Occasionally the peace is shattered, eg, a search and recovery operation of canned goods of doubtful bacterial purity or containing excess metal contamination, seen very much as an isolated incident; or the recent very large enforcement enterprise in the marketing of horseflesh (and other substitutions) for beef. The nationwide sale and distribution of meat on such a vast scale, only possible by reason of marketing methods — frozen blocks of boneless meat, which even after thawing out is not easily distinguishable from the genuine even in the eye of the expert; this is in effect only a fraud always around in the long ago years built up into a massive illicit trade.

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British Food Journal, vol. 85 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 February 1985

Keri Davies, Colin Gilligan and Clive Sutton

The structure of the UK food manufacturing industry is highly fragmented and consists of some 5,000 firms. Of these, however, the ten largest companies are estimated to account…

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The structure of the UK food manufacturing industry is highly fragmented and consists of some 5,000 firms. Of these, however, the ten largest companies are estimated to account for one‐third of all sales. The importance of the 100 largest private sector firms has traditionally been relatively high within the industry and in 1975, for example, they produced 55 per cent of the food sector's net output, compared with the 40 per cent provided by a similar sample in the total manufacturing sector. Similarly, evidence from both Ashby and Mordue demonstrates that during the 1970s the average size of food manufacturers/processors overtook that of manufacturers as a whole in terms of numbers employed. By the same measure, businesses with more than one hundred employees continued to expand at a faster rate in food than the average for all manufacturers, so that the mean employment size of these larger food enterprises in the late 1970s was more than one‐third greater than in all manufacturing. Smaller establishments, by contrast, are relatively under‐represented in the UK food, drink and tobacco sector, both in comparison with the average for all manufacturers and internationally.

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International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0269-8218

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