Intervento

The article intends to give an account of the terms of the debate regarding the relationship between the CAP and competition, highlighting the tensions between the Commission and Parliament and the repercussions in legislative choices in a dimension that still seems unresolved today. The oscillations of the pendulum between PAC and Antitrust in the context of the regulation of the agri-food system seem to reappear also in the regulation of unfair commercial practices. It does not seem easy to propose a reading that is not necessarily dichotomous, which would like to make a dimension of commonality between the discipline of competition and the CAP prevail, although an awareness, even among jurists, of the compatibility of agricultural market law and the antitrust law.