12 Amendments of James NICHOLSON related to 2013/2091(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that rising food prices, long supply chains and high mark ups on some foods have made fraud easier and more profitable;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recognises that global demand for food continues to increase creating pressure on producers and often leading to food shortages; Highlights that short supply often leads to price inflation and such price differentials frequently result in fraud;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is concerned by the significant correlation between international organised crime and food fraud;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Regrets the very serious link between food fraud and animal welfare abuses;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to review the criminal law on food fraud to ensure that the severity of sentences is commensurate with the profits that can be generated througheffective, proportionate and dissuasive; and to immediately and decisively react to the revelations of fraud in the food chain particularly by stringent enforcement of existing national law; (Member States should lay down rules on penalties applicable to infringement of food fraud, and to make sentences tougher where necessary;hat the penalties should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. However it is important in this context that it is left to Member States to determine what they should be in accordance with the subsidiarity principle.)
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recognises that retail supply chains are often so long and complicated that it is impossible to isolate where and when the crime took place leading to prosecutorial difficulty in many instances;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that food fraud is a criminal offence, and that Member States are best placed to take the action necessary to identify and eradicate any breaches of legal obligations in the food supply chain;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the need for traceability, control, and due diligence by retailors in order to safeguard long supply chains and consumers as the unwitting victims of fraud;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the extension ofAwaits with interest the results of studies on the current traceability regimes and the systematic implementation of the ‘step-free’ traceability provided for in basic Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 covering food and feed, food-producing animals, and all other substances destined for this purpose or which can be expected to be used in the production of food or feed; calls for the entire food chain in Europe, including all stages of production, processing and sales and distribution, to be transparent and fully open to scrutiny by inspectors in order to ensure that poor quality products can be quickly identified. (While it is essential to implement traceability throughout the food chain to ensure the integrity of food supply networks Member States should have discretion over where to introduce charges so as to avoid a disproportionate impact on SMEs.)