7 Amendments of Matt CARTHY related to 2018/2008(INI)
Amendment 6 #
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 to be identical in quality and composition, whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas all farmers in the European Union produce products to the same high standards; customers expect this uniformity of quality to be offered by the other elements of the food chain, regardless of the jurisdiction in which they reside;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the analyses show that certain products contain less meaquantity of the main ingredient, or less of other ingredients, in certain countries, in most cases those countries which joined the EU since 2004, 2007 and 2013; whereas the analyses found instances of the same products being sold at considerably higher prices in those countries than in the so- called ‘old Member States’;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Firmly believes that, in response to European citizens’ concerns about different products being sold under the same brand in different Member States, the practice of ‘one brand, one product, different content and proportional composition’ needs to be stopped by means of an amendment to Directive 2005/29/EC of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practicesas it poses a risk of enticing customers to buy products, based on a false expectation of quality or composition;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Views that, this should be accomplished by means of an amendment to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005/29/EC of 11 May 2005, inter alia, to incorporate the ‘product of reference’ measure, as detailed in the non-binding Commission notice on ‘the application of EU food and consumer protection law to issues of Dual Quality of products’ (2017/C 327/01);
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that, until that practice is stopped, and in order to raise the profile of manufacturers’ initiatives on the use of local recipes , a system should be introduced for indicating, in a way that respects the consumer’s right of informed choice and consumer preferences, theat a local recipes has been used in the preparation of the specific products;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of an agency or other specialised unit to monitorEuropean Commission to work, in collaboration with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, on a larger study to measure consistency of composition and proportional use of ingredients in identically branded and packaged food products.