11 Amendments of Laurenţiu REBEGA related to 2018/2008(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas consumers make an associative link between brand, product and quality and expect products of the same brand with the same label, the same ingredients and the same proportional composition to be identical in quality whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas some consumers make an associative link between brand, product and quality and expect products of the same brand to be identical in quality whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the dual quality of products can conceal fraudulent practices by the producers and/or distributors of food products;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas objective differences in supply due to the regional and/or seasonal availability of raw materials are possible;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesRecalls that the allocation of EUR 2 million to develop a methodology for, and conduct, comparative testing of food products in different Member States; expects the testing to be completed at the earliest possible date, preferably in 2018;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Advocates strongly the distribution to the national authorities and the public dissemination of company market findings regarding regional preferences in the case of products whose composition differs from one region to another;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the European Union, national authorities and single market producers to take all necessary steps to inform consumers of any disparities in product composition through visible and clear labelling;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Encourages the adoption of a different approach to the preparation of specific products in order to protect consumers and ensure that they are properly informed;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of an agency or other specialised unit public online database to monitor consistency of composition and proportional use of ingredients in identically branded and packaged food products., ensuring that the creation and maintenance costs of the platform are kept low; notes that researchers, specialists and even members of the public from various Member States could distribute labels and information regarding the displayed and de facto content of the products, which would then be automatically compared with details of the same product in another Member State, any discrepancies being flagged up and closely scrutinised by the Joint Research Centre;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that the origin of food, especially in the case of prepared foods, is an important decision factor for the consumer; calls therefore for the labelling of the place of origin of food and its location and method of processing (including slaughter methods) to be harmonised at European level to recognise the specificity of each national production, and to meet consumer expectations, which sometimes vary from one country to another.
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that, if the provisions of the New Deal are infringed, with unjustified product disparities from between one Member State and another, serious penalties must be imposed, such as barring the product concerned from the single market for a specified period.