The GCA Act and you

摘要

JS: First of all the Code is something which your readers, whether they're supermarkets or suppliers, will be familiar with because that's already in place. What this does is to build on that by making sure that we've got a procedure in place for it to be enforced if it isn't being. So it's not about new obligations, but it is about making sure that Code is absolutely complied with. And there've been a lot of concerns put forward by various suppliers and groups representing suppliers that have raised significant concerns over a course of years. This dates back to the Competition Commission's initial investigation and they recommended that the Code be put into place but also took the view that it would actually need to have an Adjudicator function to make sure that it runs as well as it should.