Agriculture and Food Law O’Connor and Company actively advises a wide variety of clients on all aspects of agricultural and food law. The lawyers at O’Connor and Company have a solid reputation in those areas of EC law which impact the food and agriculture industries. The firm’s clients include trading and food companies, farmers, representative organisations, governments and the European Commission. In the area of agriculture and foodstuffs O’Connor and Company has extensive experience in common market organisations, CAP reform, producer organisations, food agencies, general food law, novel foods, additives, labelling, packaging, food contact materials, plant and animal health, product and marketing authorisations, GMOs, life sciences.   Advice on EC agriculture and food law also concerns monitoring of legislative developments in the field of plant protection products and the setting of maximum residue levels for food products. O’Connor and Company has undertaken a number of studies on the free movement of foodstuffs in the non-harmonised sectors of EC food law and in particular has examined the ingredients, packaging, labelling and presentation of a variety of food and health products. In this research, the firm has based its conclusions on science, risk assessment, the EC and international treaties, EC and national law, the case law of the EC courts and those of the Member States.   Since 1996 the firm has been actively involved in advising on the approximation of the agricultural and food law of many Eastern European Member States with that of the Community. This advice has included work not only on the law itself but also on the administration of that law and the different ways in which different Member States apply Community rules. Other issues O’Connor and Company has dealt with concern the harmonization of sanitary and phytosanitary measures, common organisations of the market including the implementation of quota systems and support structures, and the establishment of intervention agencies and paying agencies for the Community SAPARD programme. Our publications