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16 Amendments of Daniel BUDA related to 2018/2008(INI)

Amendment 3 #
A. whereas consumers make an associative link between brand, product and quality and expect products of the same brand marketed under the same label to be identical in quality whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas consumers make an associative link between brand, product and quality and expect products of the same brand and/or identical in appearance to be identical also in quality whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas analyses of product content and labelling have been carried out in approved laboratories in a number of EU countries, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia, on certain products marketed in Central and Eastern European countries;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas comparative organoleptic tests and analyses of product content and labelling have been carried out in approved laboratories in a number of EU countries, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
C. whereas the analyses show that certain products contain less meat, or less ofers have sold products with different quality but under the same brand and those with a deceptively identical appearance and certain products contain less in some important ingredients (etc. meat) or other ingredients, in certain countries, in most cases those countries which joined the EU in 2004, 2007 and 2013; whereas the analyses found instances of the same products or those with deceptive identical appearance and having a lower quality being sold at considerably higher prices in those countries than in the so- called ‘old Member States’;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas current laboratory findings for dual quality products confirm that the lower quality products contain ingredients presenting a higher health risk to consumers;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes 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, with a view to introducing specific measures as soon as possible to ban these unfair practices;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission, in view of the allocation of European funding for analyses, to make it compulsory for the findings thereof to be made public in all official EU languages, so that consumers can be properly informed about the quality of the products in question and make their choices accordingly;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the efforts of the Joint Research Centre to establish guidelines for a harmonised testing approach, and urges the Member States to grant financial support to national competent authorities in order to carry out studies, based on these guidelines, in suspected cases of dual quality;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
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 practices; strongly advocates that legislative changes be introduced to ensure that products of the same brand but of different quality or with different ingredients are marketed under different labels and that economic operators guilty of continued unfair practices be severely penalised and possibly banned from certain markets;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Firmly believes that, in response to European citizens’ concerns about different products having deceptively identical appearance but different quality and/or ingredients being sold under the same brand in different Member States, the practice of ‘one brand, one product, different contentquality 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 practices;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
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, the local recipes used in the preparation of specific products; supports the active involvement of citizens in containing the spread of this practice by setting up a European alert system to identify dual quality products;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
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, the local recipes used in the preparation of specific products; it is desirable for consumer information purposes to publish a public database that a product with "different recipe" that a producer have made in a given Member State is based exactly on what kind of criteria;
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of an agency or other specialised unit to monitor specialised authority or monitoring unit, keeping bureaucracy to a minimum, to verify consistency of composition and proportional use of ingredients in identically branded and packaged food products.
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of an agency or other specialised unit to monitor consistency of composition and proportional use of added ingredients in identically branded and packaged food products.
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the common development of a food control system targeted to filter products under the same brand or those of deceptively identical appearance but with different quality. This system would be based on three level control: - it is advisable to complete the tasks by ensuring the standard quality of products under the same brand or those of deceptively identical appearance but produced by the same food operator of those persons who are responsible for the quality at a given food operator. Furthermore, the internal control procedure of food operators may be completed recovery plan in case of products in dual quality. - food safety authorities in Member States or regions should carry comparative laboratory analyses including organoleptic and other necessary tests every year concerning products sold in different Member States under the same brand or those of deceptively identical appearance. They should send their results to the European Food Safety Authority. In case of fraud in food quality they should notify the other Member States and the European Commission via the Rapid Alert System on Food and Feed. - it is necessary to create a new unit in the European Food Safety Authority which would collect and analyse the results of the comparative laboratory analyses by Member States, as well as store these in a publicly accessible EU database. It would immediately launch a common food safety action in this field if needed.
2018/03/02
Committee: AGRI