Activities of Mihai ŢURCANU related to 2018/2008(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Dual quality of products in the Single Market (debate) RO
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on dual quality of products in the single market
Amendments (12)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to the conclusions of the meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council of 6 March 2017,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Citation 4 b (new)
Citation 4 b (new)
– having regard to the results of the comparative studies carried out by consumer protection authorities and organisations in several EU Member States,
Amendment 15 #
Aa. whereas, at the above meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council, several Member States presented the results of studies showing that products were being sold in the EU with the same name and the same packaging but with different levels of quality, taste and/or ingredients, and pointed out that this practice may mislead consumers and creates unfair competition;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas proven differences in ingredients could in the long term affect consumers’ health, for example where the level of fat and/or sugar is higher than expected and when consumers are particularly vulnerable, or where fats of animal origin are replaced by fats of vegetable origin or vice versa, or where sugar is replaced with artificial sweeteners, or when the salt content is increased, particularly in the case of vulnerable consumers;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas European consumers in different Members States are unable to assess by themselves the potential differences in taste as well as in the composition of certain products when those differences are not recorded on the product label, and are therefore unable to make an informed purchasing decisions due to a lack of relevant information;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas labelling that does not correspond to the additives used or to the number of substitutes replacing basic ingredients misleads consumers and may pose a risk to their health;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas there are no legislative regulations on dual quality at European Union level;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the absence of European rules on dual quality means that it is not possible to compare or identify dual quality and there are no instruments that might be used to remedy the situation;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the allocation of EUR 2 million for the development of a common testing methodology, and the inclusion in the EU budget for 2018 of a pilot project that aims to assess different aspects of dual quality for several categories of products; urges Member States and national authoritthe Commission further to allocate financial resources with a viesw to actively participate in ongoing initiatives to facilitate the processcarrying out comparative testing during a market surveillance period of at least two years in order to deter manufacturers who have used this misleading practice;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the need to boost the level of transparency with regard to the information provided to consumers by manufacturers through a regulation that will apply across Europe, through which all products marketed in the EU market are included in an online platform in the form of a European register of products marketed in the European market containing, for example, the information to be found on the product label, the name under which the product is marketed in each Member State, its nutritional characteristics and physiochemical parameters and a photo of the product, ensuring that the platform is readily accessible for the purposes of informing consumers;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages the Commission to put forward a proposal for a regulation at European level on the labelling and packaging of products that differ from the original recipe of the product, in keeping with the provisions of the Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers (Food Information to Consumers Regulation);
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Encourages the Commission to set up a specialised directorate under the coordination of the competent agency, with professionals in the field, that would carry out checks in manufacturers’ factories and conduct audits of the production flow in order to verify whether the composition of the recipe given by the manufacturer is being followed in cases where a suspicion of dual quality arises;