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Abstract
In France today, in the case of four groups of farm commodities (fruits and vegetables, flowers and ornemental plants, live animals and fish) physical markets remain the basis of price formation and the locus of effective competition. They are aforum for operators, provide a sensitive index of the state of supply and demand detect domination effects and are a springboard for entry into the field. They constantly remind firms, organizations and governments about economic reality. For perishables of varying quality and fluctuating supply physical markets are not likely to disappear. Their modernization is linked with the level of global regulation of the economy.