Activities of Tilly METZ related to 2023/2081(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation report on Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (A9-0416/2023 - Tilly Metz) (vote)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods
Amendments (19)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act)1a , _________________ 1a OJ L 277, 27.10.2022, p. 1.
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
– having regard to the EFSA scientific opinion regarding Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas claims referring to children development and health in the labelling of foods may be authorised in accordance with the procedure laid down in Articles 15, 16, 17 and 19 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, provided that they satisfy the requirements set out, inter alia, in Articles 3, 5, and 6 of that Regulation;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, as explained in Recital 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, foods promoted with claims may be perceived by consumers as having a nutritional, physiological or other health advantage over similar or other products to which such nutrients and other substances are not added, and this may encourage consumers to make choices which directly influence their total intake of individual nutrients or other substances in a way which would run counter to scientific advice;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the presence of nutrition or health claims affects consumers’ food choices, along with other characteristics such as price, brand, colour and packaging shape; whereas health claims, especially risk reduction claims, have more of an impact on consumers’ attitudes than nutrition claims10 ; whereas consumer understanding of nutrition and health claims is influenced by various factors, including nutritional knowledge and education levels so as to facilitate the shift to healthier diets and to stimulate food reformulation; _________________ 10 Pichierri M, Pino G, Peluso AM, Guido G., ‘The interplay between health claim type and individual regulatory focus in determining consumers’ intentions toward extra-virgin olive oil’, Food Research International. Vol. 136, Elsevier, October 2020, pp. 109467.
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the EFSA panel could not set “a safe level of intake” of free and added sugars because “the risk of adverse health effects (responses) increased across the whole range of observed intake levels (doses) in a constant (linear) manner, i.e. the higher the intake, the greater the risk of adverse effects”; whereas the World Health Organization's Cancer Research Agency (IARC) has classified the sweetener aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic to humans"; whereas a systematic review by the WHO suggests that non-sugar sweeteners could be linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, all-cause mortality, and increased body weight;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas generally accepted scientific evidence shows that DHA in breast milk contributes to the visual development of infants, the synthesised DHA added to formula milks and other foods intended for infants is, however, in a different biological environment to breast milk, which is a species-specific, living substance with co-enzymes and co- factors which allow the fats to work optimally;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas in its resolution of 16 February 20221a, the European Parliament stressed the role of healthy diets in preventing and limiting the incidence of cancer; _________________ 1a OJ C 342, 6.9.2022, p. 109.
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas however, information provision, education and awareness campaigns alone are insufficient to achieve the required change towards more sustainable and healthy consumer choices as these can be influenced by other key elements of food environments such as affordability, marketing and availability;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas according to an impact assessment analysis of the NHCR1a, the overall cost of submitting an Article 13.5 or Article 14 health claim application is likely to be in the region of €0.26 million to €1 million per application, notably due to the high cost of human intervention studies; whereas this cost constitutes a considerable barrier for applications regarding health claims on botanicals; _________________ 1a Economic Impact Assessment of the European Union (EU)’s Nutrition & Health Claims Regulation on the EU food supplement sector and market, Graham Brookes GBC Ltd, UK, September 2010.
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights that consumers tend to overconsume food products bearing claims to promote better health, which is known as the ‘halo-effect’; advocates for the inclusion of both minimum and maximum usage thresholds on product labels of all foods and food supplements bearing health claims, along with a recommendation to consult a healthcare professional before consuming food supplements, in particular in order to avoid potential adverse interactions with specific treatments;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that information provision, education and awareness campaigns alone are insufficient to achieve the required change towards more sustainable and healthy consumer choices and need to be accompanied by policies and legislation which improve the food environments;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that many of the claims used on the EU market are for nutrients that very few European consumers lack in their diets; calls on the Commission to examine the legislative potential for extending EFSA’s remit to include assessing the relevance of the use of such claims, in addition to examining the scientific basis for such claims;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights that, even when the claims for infant formula have strong scientific support, for instance the health claim "DHA intake contributes to the normal visual development of infants up to 12 months of age", their use may be inappropriate since they still risk undermining breastfeeding and limit access to improvements in these important nutritional products to those able to pay a premium price;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the possibility to restrict the use of the permitted nutrition claim ‘no added sugar’ for products containining sweeteners or high levels of free sugars;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the Commission and the Member States to set up a knowledge network aimed at achieving harmonisation in the enforcement of the NHCRsupporting the Working Group on Nutrition and Health claims - Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006; points out that this network should help facilitate the exchange of best practices, bridge interpretation gaps among Member States and address enforcement disparities;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Is concerned about the presence of unauthorized and misleading nutrition and health claims online; points to the responsabilites of Member States and online platform providers as established by the Digital Services Act, namely to act against the dissemintation of illegal content and to ensure transparency for consumers as regards online advertising; highlights in particular the online advertising transparency obligations of providers of very large online platforms and very large online search engines;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create a platform to share best practices of online enforcement of the NHCR and encourage collaboration among the Member States’ competent authorities;