Together with our European cooperation partners, we undertake legal representation and legal advice in European and Hungarian food industry product and production licensing cases, food safety official measures, market surveillance, consumer protection procedures and other related aspects of food distribution and food trade.
In order to facilitate the sustainable and low-risk operation of food production, trade, retail and wholesale distribution, we offer our expertise to our dear Clients, from the process, procurement, production licensing, to the operation of the business and representation in legal appeal proceedings against possible official decisions or other measures.
Our activities range across a wide spectrum of legal advisory services and include, among others, the following areas and types of cases:
Checking and optimizing packaging labels
Advertising texts (especially “Health Claims”) and advertising strategy
Protection of geographical indications of origin
Eco-labels
Checking the availability and occupancy of a designation intended to be used as a trade mark
Representation before authorities
Competition law violations related to food (especially interim measures)
Legal opinion on food trade and distribution in the field of competition law and trademark law
Legal evaluation of producer market price, producer pricing, purchase price
Commitments related to food hygiene, food raw material hygiene (e.g. feed hygiene), licensing, official inspection and classification inspections consulting
Food safety
Consulting and representation in product liability claims
Crisis management
Our practical legal support in the field of food safety, food hygiene and food trade means providing timely, cost-effective and effective solutions, in which the expertise of our foreign cooperation partners and our local foreign lawyers provides a solid basis for our Clients.
Our employees have up-to-date knowledge and many years of experience in proactively securing the rights of producers, food manufacturers or distributors and enforcing them as widely as possible – during litigation, non-litigation legal disputes and in arbitration proceedings.
We emphasize preventive action against decisions and measures that potentially or actually harm our Clients, and the quick and reasonable conclusion of legal disputes. Our mandate includes representation before authorities and courts, monitoring cases between different court levels, and providing information and aftercare during procedures following the appeal stage.