The European Commission has undertaken an analysis of the "margin" of benefits accruing to the distribution channels in food prices because consumers have not noticed the slump in home prices last year. For example, grain prices have been reduced by 50% compared to 2008, the meat has stabilized and olive oil is down 30%, according to data from the European Commission. Brussels presented at the end of the year a non-legislative report on the role of large supermarket chains in food prices, according to EU sources have confirmed. Consumers have not noticed the price collapse last year in primary The Commission intends to make a picture "about the factors that influence the cost of consumer products. Between 2007 and 2008 there was a global

crisis for the agricultural raw material shortages and consequent rising food prices, but home prices (paid to the farmer or rancher) have barely fallen since then. The report is concerned DGs of Agriculture and Competition, as Brussels considers that contributions at source only partially influence the final product. The European Commission will monitor more closely whether there are practices "harmful" competition, but acknowledges that abuse is to control the national government. For Brussels "is difficult to act and open records in practice only if he sees that there are posters or behavior of large groups that harm competition in the Community market" Tran boundary ", not national.