{"id":28868,"date":"2023-11-07T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T07:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/?p=28868"},"modified":"2023-11-07T21:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T21:36:39","slug":"groceries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/groceries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Groceries"},"content":{"rendered":"
The 2014 Act amends Part 3 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 by inserting a new Part on Grocery Goods Undertakings. The \u00a0Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation may make regulations in respect of certain aspects of the commercial relationships between relevant grocery goods undertakings and specifies<\/p>\n
The Minister may issue guidelines on the regulations.<\/p>\n
There is provision for the inspection and investigation of relevant Grocery Goods Undertakings by the CCPC to monitor compliance with any regulations. It also provides that where the CCPC has reasonable grounds for believing that a relevant grocery goods undertaking has failed or is failing to comply with the regulations, it may investigate the potential breach or any complaints it receives in relation to any such alleged failure.<\/p>\n
Provision is also made to allow the CCPC to make preliminary enquiries for the purposes of deciding whether the investigation of a complaint is justified and to request the complainant to provide further written particulars of the complaint within a specified time period. Provision is also made to allow the CCPC decide to discontinue any such investigation if the complainant fails to supply the requested information and to notify the complainant in writing of any decision not to investigate or discontinue an investigation, together with the reasons for this decision.<\/p>\n
The CCPC may decide not to investigate a complaint in certain circumstances (e.g. it considers the complaint is vexatious or trivial). CCPC may issue contravention notices where it is of the opinion that a relevant grocery goods undertaking is contravening or has contravened any provision of any regulations. Provision is made for an authorised officer to issue a contravention notice to a relevant grocery goods undertaking to remedy the contravention by a date specified. There is an appeal by the relevant grocery goods undertaking to any such contravention notice.<\/p>\n
The failure to comply with a contravention notice constitutes an offence. The Section also makes it an offence to fail to comply with any regulations. Sanctions for such offences may be pursued summarily or on indictment with fines as follows.<\/p>\n
A person guilty of an offence under the Act is liable on summary conviction to the following fines and penalties: (a) on a first summary conviction for any such offence, to a<\/p>\n
If, after being convicted of an offence, the person continues to contravene the requirement or prohibition to which the offence relates, the person is guilty of\u00a0 a further offence on each day that the contravention continues and for each such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding \u20ac500.<\/p>\n
A person guilty of an offence is liable on conviction on indictment to the following fines and penalties:<\/p>\n
Anyone who is aggrieved by the failure of a relevant grocery goods undertaking to comply with any regulations or with any compliance notice, shall have the right of action for relief against that relevant grocery goods undertaking in the Circuit Court (any such relief, including exemplary damages, not being in excess of the limits of the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court in an action founded on tort).<\/p>\n
There is power of the CCPC to publish a list of relevant grocery goods undertakings who have been found guilty of contravening the regulations against which\u00a0 contravention notices have issued<\/p>\n
There is \u00a0procedure for redress for employees who are impacted by breach of the protection of persons who report breaches of relevant statutory provisions and provides for offences for false reporting of alleged breaches.<\/p>\n\n
The 2014 Act amends Part 3 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 by inserting a new Part on Grocery Goods Undertakings. The \u00a0Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation may make regulations in respect of certain aspects of the commercial relationships between relevant grocery goods undertakings and specifies those matters on which the Minister may make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29009,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868\/revisions\/29009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}