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The Czech Republic is on its way to introduce a protectionist food law despite warnings that this could be in violation of the EU’s free movement of goods. The lower house of Czech parliament passed an amendment to the food law on Wednesday (20 January) under which stores larger than 400 square metres will be required to sell a mandatory minimum share of food products made in the Czech Republic, starting in 2022.  The quota is to be 55% next year, with the aim to gradually grow this to 73% in 2028. The proposal was tabled by the right-wing Freedom and Direct Democracy party (ID) and pushed through by government coalition parties ANO (Renew) and the Social Democrats (S&D) with support from the Communist party (GUE-NGL).

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