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Malik Makhlouf, Etienne Montaigne
The new aspect of the dairy policy obliges dairies already registered with the State to offer producers and collectors of raw milk formal and written contracts which must, in practice, help resolve or limit the multiple market failures. This article will analyze exhaustively the nature of these formal contracts that bind dairies to their raw milk suppliers by using the tools of the theories of contracts and transaction costs. This review will shed light on contractual practices through a vertical coordination process of a dynamic sector propelled by the various supports and bonuses from the State. This case study is original insofar as the contractual relationship is imposed by the State as a sine qua non for obtaining these bonuses and subsidies. It is therefore not surprising that clauses are applied in incomplete and circumvented ways when relations become too unequal. Informal relations participate in finding solutions to the difficulties encountered in practice. These contracts are nonetheless tools for structuring and modernizing the milk sector.
