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15 Amendments of Caterina CHINNICI related to 2016/2223(INI)

Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
- having regard to the Charter of Milan adopted during the Expo Milano 2015,
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the FAO estimates that each year, approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food, equal to approximately one-third, by weight, of all food produced for human consumption in the world is lost or wasted7; _________________ 7FAO, 2011. Global Food Losses and Food Waste.;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereasin view of the undertakings signed by the EU in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted at the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015, and in particular since the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 is aimed at halvingreducing by 50 % per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 20350 and reducing food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas there is no common consistent definition of ‘food waste’ or ‘food surpluses’, nor a common methodology for measuring either food waste or food surpluses at Union level yet, which makes it difficult to compare different datasets and to measure progress in reducing food waste; whereas in the FUSIONS project, food waste was defined as ‘any food, and inedible parts of food, removed from the food supply chain to be recovered or disposed (including composted, crops ploughed in/not harvested, anaerobic digestion, bio-energy production, co- generation, incineration, disposal to sewer, landfill or discarded to sea)’11; _________________ 11 FUSIONS Definitional Framework for Food Waste, 3 July 2014.
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the waste management hierarchy established by the Waste Framework Directive 12 (prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal) cannot be applied in full todoes not take account of the specific features of food waste; whereas currently there is no specific hierarchy for the management of unconsumed foodprevention and management of food waste at EU level; _________________ 12 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3).
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas the donation of unsold food along the entire supply chaina very low level of food surpluses is a psychological factor in the entire agri-food sector, and donating these surpluses leads to considerable reductions in food waste, while helping people in need;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common methodology toadopt, by 31 December 2017, a common methodology, including minimum quality and quantity requirements, for the uniform measurement of food waste in the Member States and to promote the exchange of best practices within the EU, both between different Member States and between different agri-food operators;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need to include an obligation for the Member States to annually notify the European Commission of the total level of food waste generated in a specific year;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the recent creation of the EU Platform on Food Lwhich is intended to identify priority measures to be adopted at EU level to prevent food losses and Ffood Wwaste; to that end, stresses that greater involvement of the European Parliament in the platform’s work would be desirable;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of how to prevent the generation of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the need for the agri- food sector to improve the planning of its production with a view to restricting food surpluses; stresses, however, that a minimum level of food surpluses is currently a psychological factor in the entire agri-food chain, and that surpluses are also caused by external factors which cannot be controlled; for this reason, considers that measures intended to encourage donation may constitute an important tool in avoiding food surpluses becoming waste;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the draft EU guidelines on food donation as a first step in the right direction; however, with a view to the various barriers to food donation contained in EU legislation, believes that the donation of unsold food along the entire food supply chain needs to be promoted further by enacting legislative changes; calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of assessing legislative measures designed to promote the donation of food products which have labelling issues, but not in cases where these issues relate to the information on the expiry date or substances or products that trigger allergies or intolerances;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Stresses the fact that developments in the digital sector offer many opportunities for preventing the generation of food waste, in particular the creation of online ‘food rescue’ platforms, which make it possible for the catering sector to offer unsold dishes at reduced prices; highlights the fact that experiments such as these have produced significant results in the Member States in which they have been developed;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 e (new)
15e. Notes that preventing the generation of food waste is the priority measure to be pursued, when correctly managing waste in line with the principles of the circular economy; stresses, however, that at the moment it is impossible to bring generation of food waste down to zero; considers that it is necessary, therefore, to lay down mandatory EU measures to ensure that food waste can be turned into new resources; considers, specifically, that, with a view to ensuring a high level of environmental protection and an output, including digestate and compost, with high quality standards, the Member States should encourage home composting and should separate out bio-waste at source, and ensure that this waste is subject to bio-recycling; considers that the Member States should also prohibit the placing of bio-waste in landfills;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 f (new)
15f. Stresses that food waste reduction objectives must be consistent with the measures and objectives in Directive 94/62/EC and, in particular, the need for the Member States to take measures to achieve a significant reduction in the consumption of non-recyclable packaging and in overpackaging;
2017/02/08
Committee: ENVI