Abstract
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The food supply chain in Slovenia is highly developed, but it involves unequally developed stakeholders with different bargaining power. Upon reviewing all stakeholders through participatory research, it is made clear that in the whole food supply chain, retail chains generally have the greatest and primary producers the smallest bargaining power. For this reason, in the process of regulating mutual relations in contractual commitments and mutual operations, unfair practices and illicit conduct often emerge, through which the parties with significant market power impose additional discounts, rebates and other contributions on the parties with smaller market power in order to improve their own financial management. Unfair practices and illicit conduct lead to the weakening of the entire food supply chain, so it is important to recognise such tendencies in the food chain. In this article, the autor would like to draw attention to the illicit conduct and unfair practices in Slovenia which are used by retail chains in their interpersonal relationships and their dealings with suppliers.</span></p>
Highlights
The food supply chain is a major employer in Europe and the Slovenian area
In the Slovenian area, unfair practices and illicit conduct have been actively dealt with for many years due to the increasing concern of both stakeholders and agricultural policy who recognized the seriousness of the existing anomalies
The first serious attempt to restrict the development of unfair practices was the signing of the Code of good business practices among stakeholders in the agri-food chain at the Agra Fair 2011
Summary
The food supply chain is a major employer in Europe and the Slovenian area. On the basis of the data in the report presented by the European Parliament (Jackiewicz, 2015), more than 47 million people in the EU are employed by the food sector. Production, processing, logistics and food sales in Slovenia employ all together about 87.000 people (ReSURSKŽ, 2011), and additional new jobs will be opened up, which is due to the increasing self-sufficiency in Slovenia. Because of the quality jobs in the operating agri-food chain, the needs of the state for various social transfers are being reduced. A wellfunctioning agri-food chain promotes economic growth well and increases the purchasing power of rural areas. Increasing demand for food of Slovenian origin generates other aspects of preserving the Slovenian countryside as well, enabling the development of other
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