ZMP GmbH
The ZMP Central Market and Price Reporting Unit for Products of the Agriculture, Forestry and Food Industry GmbH was a commercial enterprise based in Bonn and most recently around 140 employees, which, in particular, forcibly financed by the entire German agricultural and food industry, examine the market in the interests of all market participants, should describe and make it understandable through its publications.
purpose
According to the law by which the Federal Republic of Germany, the Institute promotion fund of the German agriculture and food industry was built, it should key economic institutions to use their task to perform to help the German farmers and food business at home and abroad in marketing their products. To this end, the legislature considered it sensible to better understand these markets with the development of their needs and pricing. He decided that the sales fund had to use a special central company for market reporting in addition to the CMA , which worked in the interests of all market participants, including consumers. In order to fulfill this mandate to create greater market transparency , the ZMP dealt with analyzes of national and global market events, with forecasts and background reports in both printing and online services.
Target groups
- agricultural producers and their associations
- Companies in the food industry
- Wholesalers and retailers (distributors)
- Craft businesses
- Wholesale and end consumers
- Multipliers
financing
The ZMP was dependent on financial contributions from the sales fund , the timber sales fund and the federal states. She generated additional income from the distribution of her products.
history
- 1950: Founding as a self-help organization for German agriculture
- 1972: Appointment as the implementation company of the sales fund to improve market transparency in accordance with the Sales Fund Act
- 1990: Assumption of tasks on behalf of the wood sales fund
- 2009 liquidation
liquidation
With a judgment of February 3, 2009, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the u. a. the financing of the ZMP contributions in accordance with the Sales Fund Act as a special charge are incompatible with the Basic Law and these regulations are therefore void. The ZMP's most important source of funding was thus omitted. Their bankruptcy was foreseeable. The liquidation of the GmbH was initiated. On February 25, 2009, its shareholders decided on an orderly liquidation . As liquidators Ralf Goessler, its former CEO were and Alfons Schnabel, director of the Chamber of Agriculture Rheinland-Pfalz used.
The ZMP ceased operations on April 30, 2009.
The GmbH, which has also been offering similar services from Bonn under the same name since 2011, is not identical to the dissolved ZMP except for the person of its last managing director.
In some cases similar tasks to the former ZMP have been given to the European Commission's market monitoring agency for certain agricultural products .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the Sales Fund Act
- ↑ Az. 2 BvL 54/06, press release Federal Constitutional Court of February 3, 2009
- ↑ The ZMP has ended its operations ( memento of the original from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 2, 2009
- ↑ The ZMP has ended its operations ( memento of the original from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 2, 2009
- ↑ Imprint zmp.de
- ↑ Overview on the website of the European Commission; to the market observatory for the dairy sector set up in 2014
