Instrumenty prawne służące ochronie konkurencji w sektorze rolnym z perspektywy prawa Unii Europejskiej (zarys problematyki)

Abstract

The article aims to analyse legal issues related to the protection of compettion in agriculture within the context of EU legislation. The conducted research was aimed at identifying motives justifying the sectoral approach adopted by the EU legislator to tackle the issue of protecting competition in agriculture, identifying adopted preferences and ways of determining the relationship between the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the competition policy within the scope of their impact on EU agriculture, as well as clarifying the content of rules of competition in agriculture derived from Art. 42 TFEU and secondary legislation established on its basis. Also the article aims to presentation new aspectes in the field of protection competition in agriculture wich express European Commission’s proposal for a divective on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain.