By Yasmine EDDAM
17 April 2025
The individual integration contract, a direct link between a farmer and a company, is just one aspect of the legislator's desire to organise agro-industrial relations. As early as the 1960s, tools were put in place to encourage a collective approach, via inter-professional agreements and standard contracts. The idea was to redress the balance of power. Yet these mechanisms have struggled to gain acceptance. Faced with this reality, and confronted with situations where the farmer finds himself economically bound hand and foot without the contract respecting the letter of the legal definition, the judges have gradually adapted their interpretation. They have broadened the scope of legal protection by increasingly taking into account the notion of economic dependence. This article explores this twofold dimension: the collective instruments provided for by the law and the case law interpretation which tends to recognise integration beyond the initial formalism. For a definition...
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