Territorial supply constraints are practices used by certain large manufacturers to restrict retailers or wholesalers from purchasing goods in one EU country and reselling them in another. Such practices may limit consumer choice and contribute to significant price differences for everyday consumer goods across the EU.

Territorial supply constraints in retail and wholesale were identified as one of the ‘Terrible Ten', the most harmful barriers to the Single Market, in the Single Market Strategy adopted in May 2025. The Commission has committed to developing tools to address unjustified territorial supply constraints in cases falling outside the scope of competition law. In her State of the Union 2026 and the Letter of Intent to the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, President Ursula von der Leyen has highlighted the initiative as EU’s next year’s priority for competitiveness and jobs. In the 15-16 October 2026 European Council conclusions, political leaders reconfirmed the urgency of making decisive progress on deepening and integrating the Single Market by removing remaining barriers, including fragmented labelling and packaging requirements and territorial supply constraints, and preventing new ones.

The European Commission’s public consultation invites retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, public authorities, consumers, civil society organisations and academia to share their views and experiences via the Have Your Say portal. The contributions will feed into the ongoing analysis and inform the proposed policy options. They will complement the input to the call for evidence gathered between 5 March and 24 April.

The public consultation is available in all EU languages and will remain open until 4 December.