The great difficulty is that an adjudicator or a supermarket ombudsman who is too weak and a code that is not enforced act as a badge of respectability for supermarkets, which can pretend that they are being regulated and that producers are being protected when they are not. A weak ombudsman could be worse than none.
Groceries Code Adjudicator
Proceeding contribution from
Tim Farron
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 5 April 2011.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Groceries Code Adjudicator.
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2010-12
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