Good news for Fair Trade farmers and workers as EU Commissioner Michel Barnier and key members of the European Parliament celebrate a new EU procurement rules that make it easier to buy fair.

17 January 2014

Public authorities across Europe will now be able to make a deliberate choice for Fair Trade products along with taking other sustainability considerations into account. The new EU public procurement directive was voted today by a large majority of Members of the European Parliament, after a political agreement reached with the Council of Ministers.

The new law confirms the direction set by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the "North Holland" case ruling (Commission vs Netherlands C

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