Scientific review of a new book dealing with public law regulation of unfair trade practices in the food supply chain in various CEE countries. A pressure has existed for decades to regulate the imbalance between sellers and buyers of agricultural and food products, and in parallel, a restraint or even a resistance to respond to this pressure by means of public law regulation.
At national level, solutions have been sought to find a way out of a maze of conflicting interests and negating each other benefits, by combining private and public law instruments, measures of varying aim and scope, promoted by both private actions and administrative decisions.