12 Amendments of Adamos ADAMOU related to 2007/2285(INI)
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas various new categories of the population such as young adolescents, adults with young children, elderly people and migrants appear as emerging risk groups,
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets the lack of urgency in the White Paper; is concerned that all actions are deferred to a review by 2010 while further research is conducted; and calls on the Commission to propose concrete steps to tackle the rise of obesity and diet related disease as a priority;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that effective self-regulation needs to be accompanied by clear and concrete targets for all parties concerned and by monitoring of these targets;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls, however, for more tangible measures especially targeted at children and at-risk groups such as elderly people, especially women, disabled persons, and poor and unemployed people, and young adolescents;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the fact that the European Union should take a leading role in formulating a common approach, maintaining ongoing liaison with the WTO and promoting coordination between Member States; is convinced that an important European added value can be provided in fields such as consumer information, nutritional education, media advertising, agricultural production and food labelling;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need to provide special funding or other incentives, such as tax benefits, for SMEs in order to enable these actors to contribute to reaching the objective of reducing obesity by developing new products, information systems and labelling;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a Invites the Commission to develop policies, including legislation, to protect children from commercial influences such as marketing and branding of energy-dense foods and fast food outlets;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that it is primarily at school level that steps have to be taken to ensure that physical activity and balanced eating become part of the behaviour of a child; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines on nutrition policies at school and for the promotion of nutritional education, and for the continuation thereof in the post-school period;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Asks the Commission to accelerate the revision of Council Directive 90/496/ EEC of 24 September 1990 on nutrition labelling for foodstuffs1, taking care that labelling is meaningful and easily understandable to the consumer; 1 OJ L 276, 6.10.1990, p. 40. and not misleading; Or. el
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls, as a matter of urgency, for an EU wide 9pm watershed on the advertising of foods high in fat, sugar and salt to children;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to promote best medical practices as well as information campaigns on obesity-related risks and abdominal obesity in particular; urges the Commission to provide information about the dangers of home diets, especially if they involve the use of anti-obesity drugs taken without medical prescription; notes that it would useful to arrange programmes and talks on combating obesity in national hospitals;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Encourages further scientific research into and monitoring of abdominal obesity in the context of the EU’s research framework programme;