« Will we live life like Hysteric guys »

Margrét Ágústa Sigurðardóttir, Managing Director of the Farmers’ Association, gives little to the warnings of Ólafur Stephensen, Managing Director of the Association of Employers, when it comes to legislation that was passed on agricultural product centers.

Olafur has pointed out that the disconnection of the Competition Act vis -à -vis product plants in the meat industry could even cover activities related to imported meat. However, the legislation as such is aimed at enabling product plants to enhance or unite.

For a long time, there has been a great deal of optimization in this area, both to improve the position of consumers and farmers.

The fear is not justified in supporting

Margrét Ágústa says it is clear from the legal documentation that followed the legislation that was run through last year that the fear that Olaf describes in the interview does not have any arguments to support.

What if this or what if the other

« We’re going to live life so that we are like some hysterical guys, eh, to keep what if this happens or the other happens. There the situation is like this. The laws are valid and have been valid. The merger that has been in effect and it is not even completed. »

Margrét Augusta is anything but comfortable with the current government’s plans to repeal the legislative changes that were undertaken last year. She points out that these plans are linked to the district court’s decision to the effect that the legislative amendments did not comply with the Constitution. The Supreme Court of Iceland, however, has been struck in the District Court in the meantime and confirmed that the law is uninvited by the legislature.

The district court had concluded that there had been so much amendment to the bill between discussions in parliament that it is not possible to talk about the same bill that was tabled and approved. The Supreme Court has, as previously stated, confirmed that Parliament has complied with the provisions of the Constitution in its work.

The legislature with the legislature

Margrét Ágústa says the Supreme Court’s ruling is important, both because it confirms that the legislature actually has the legislative authority and not the ministries that dump bills in there, but also because if the laws in question had been considered to be in conflict with the constitution for the aforementioned amendments.

The interview with Margrét Ágústa and Olaf can be seen and heard in their entirety below: