[4] This brief regulation created the new body based on the European mandates provided for in Regulations 2262/1984, of the Council, of July 17, and 27/1985, of the Commission, of January 4, which establishes the need for Member States to create autonomous control agencies for the aid granted to the olive oil sector.

[4] It was attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and its director had the organic level of deputy director-general.

[5] In 2013, the Law on measures to improve the functioning of the food chain (Food Chain Act) was approved, and the first additional provision of this law transformed the Agency for Olive Oil into the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) after expanding its functions not only to the olive markets that it already supervised, but also to others such as dairy, wine and any other that was assigned to it..[6] The renewed agency began to perform his de facto functions on January 1, 2014[7] and its internal rules were approved in April 2014.

[3] Following protests from the primary sector in 2020,[8][9] the minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, pledged, among other things, to strengthen the Agency to ensure compliance with 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.