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The European Retail Round Table (ERRT) was a Brussels-based association that brought together the chief executives of major European retail groups to engage with EU institutions on single market, competition, sustainability and supply-chain issues.[3] It merged into EuroCommerce in November 2019 and ceased operations in 2020.[4]
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ERRT was active by 1999 and was based at Square de Meeûs 35, Brussels.[5][6] Its policy work addressed the European single market for retail, including digital and cross-border issues, as set out in a 2015 position paper to the European Commission.[7]
In 1999 ERRT convened a GMO working group (chaired by Lucy Neville-Rolfe of Tesco) and, in consultation with EuroCommerce, issued a discussion paper on GMOs in food setting out retailers’ views on labelling and risk communication. The paper supported an EU-wide labelling regime (including derivatives and additives), a very low threshold for adventitious presence, validated testing methods, and segregation/traceability along the supply chain; it also reported several large retailers removing GM ingredients from own-brand products in response to consumer concerns.[8]
ERRT was a founding association behind The Supply Chain Initiative (2013), promoting fair-trading practices across the food supply chain;[9] worked with the Commission and EuroCommerce on the Retail Forum for Sustainability and the Retailers’ Environmental Action Programme (REAP);[10] and acted as secretariat to the Timber Retail Coalition (Carrefour, IKEA, Kingfisher, Marks & Spencer), which advocated EU rules on legally and responsibly sourced timber.[11] Under the Retail Forum for Sustainability, ERRT coordinated the voluntary Retail Agreement on Waste and published a 2016 report summarising signatories’ actions to prevent and reduce waste across operations and supply chains.[12]
On 7 November 2019, ERRT and EuroCommerce announced that they would merge their activities, with ERRT's functions integrated into EuroCommerce; ERRT ceased operations in 2020. [13]
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