The agency began to perform his de facto functions on January 1, 2014[5] and its internal rules were approved in April 2014.

[3] Following protests from the primary sector in 2020,[6][7] the minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, pledged, among other things, to strengthen the Agency to ensure compliance with the Food Chain Act.

[8] In the same vein, in December 2021 the Cortes Generales approved an amendment of the Food Chain Act.

With regard to the AICA, on the one hand, it was granted full authority to access the digital registry in which the food contracts signed with the primary producers and their groups, as well as their modifications, are registered to carry out the pertinent checks within the scope of their powers.

On the other hand, with the aim of promoting efficiency in management and legal certainty, the decision-making power about minor pecuniary sanctions (when they do not exceed 100,000 euros) is transferred from the Director-General for the Food Industry to the Director of the Food Information and Control Agency.