[T]he Brussels-based Fair Trade Advocacy Office and UK Fair Trade organisation Traidcraft claimed that the Commission has missed the opportunity to take the lead in stopping abusive business practices, which impact on many hardworking farmers, workers and businesses in Europe and beyond. Instead, the Commission has passed responsibility to a voluntary initiative set up by the private sector and to EU Member States...Sergi Corbalán, Executive Director of Fair Trade Advocacy Office said:.."All farmers supplying the European market should be able to make complaints anonymously, regardless of which country they are based in, outside or inside the EU”...Inaction by the European Commission leaves suppliers exposed to unfair trading practices (UTPs) that include late payments, unilateral changes to contracts and the unfair shifting of risk onto suppliers. Research shows that when supermarkets dump risk onto their suppliers in the form of delayed payments or additional costs, these risks are often passed on down the supply chain.  Anti-food waste campaigners, Feedback, released a statement pointing out that inaction by the European Commission leaves suppliers exposed to unfair trading practices that include late payments, unilateral changes to contracts and the unfair shifting of risk onto suppliers...Feedback’s own investigations in countries like Kenya, Guatemala and Peru have uncovered how unfair trading practices practiced by retailers and their direct suppliers often have significant impacts on farmers in the Global South...