Fepex and Garrigues will provide training and specialized legal support in Agribusiness

Collaboration agreement is signed

The agreement will allow FEPEX to have stable and recurring support from Garrigues' Agribusiness area for the organization of talks and training events such as those they have been carrying out in recent times with some of their associations, such as Coexphal, Proexport and Freshuelva, among others.

---

 

The Spanish Federation of Associations of Exporting Producers of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers and Live Plants (FEPEX) and the law firm Garrigues have signed a collaboration agreement with the objective of providing the associations integrated in the Federation and the associated companies with top-level training events and access to the team of specialists in the area of Garrigues Agribusiness. 

 

The agreement will allow FEPEX to have stable and recurring support from Garrigues' Agribusiness area. for the organization of talks and training events like those they have been carrying out in recent times with some of their associations, such as Coexphal, Proexport and Freshuelva, among others. 

 

Likewise, Garrigues Agribusiness experts will advise FEPEX on the analysis of legislative developments and the interpretation of laws and regulations that specifically affect the food sector and to producers and exporters of fruits, vegetables, flowers and live plants. In addition, Garrigues will be designated as Fepex's preferred advisor on agri-food matters. 

 

Both parties reinforce their collaboration to face the regulatory changes that affect fruit and vegetable production and marketing.

 

Within this framework are the meetings held by FEPEX and Garrigues with the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) to provide the best possible information on one of the topics that most concern the fruit and vegetable sector, such as food chain law enforcement.

 

The president of FEPEX, Jorge F. Brotóns, considers that this agreement will contribute to face the legislative challenge in which the fruit and vegetable and flower and plant sectors have been immersed, with new regulations that significantly affect both production and marketing.

 

Garrigues is the leading legal and tax advisor in Spain in the food sector, both in terms of recurring advice on the daily operations of companies and in matters of corporate operations in the agricultural and food field. Furthermore, thanks to its extensive network of local offices (18 in Spain) and international offices (in 12 countries) with specialized Agribusiness teams in each of them, it is present in the main geographical areas with the greatest weight of agricultural, livestock and fishing activity. , and the rest of the food industry.

 

The Spanish Federation of Associations of Producers and Exporters of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers and Live Plants, FEPEX, integrates 30 associations of a provincial, regional or national nature, which in turn are made up of more than 1.800 companies, framed in four sectors or branches of activity: the production and export of fruits and vegetables, the majority sector in the Federation; the production and marketing of potatoes; the production and marketing of prepared or IV Range fruits and vegetables and the production and marketing of live flowers and plants. At the national level, it has a direct presence before public and private institutions that directly influence the development of agrarian, economic, labor and fiscal policy of the sectors represented.