Supermarket chains still have to make food bank donations

Big supermarket chains will still have to donate part of their unsold goods to food banks as the Constitutional Court declined the proposal of a senator group headed by Ivo Valenta (for the Freeholder Party) to abolish the obligation, calling it a forced gift or a specific food tax. The court said it was neither an unconstitutional infringement of the ownership rights, nor a violation of the right to do business. It called the obligation a part of the international attempts to cut food wastage, reduce waste, protect the environment and help the socially disadvantaged.