4 Amendments of Maria MATSOUKA related to 2007/2285(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission's approach followed in its White Paper on nutrition, overweight and obesity related health issues,1 offering industry the possibility, through self-regulatory initiatives, of contributing to reducing ill health due to overweight and obesity; calls, however, on the Commission to closely monitor and encourage industry's initiatives aiming to advertise responsibly and to reduce levels of salt, fat and sugar in foodstuffs, with a view to a revision of the current situation by 2010; 1 COM(2007)0279. urges the Commission furthermore to impose effective penalties on economic operators, where it considers appropriate, in order to achieve the objective of improving public health;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges that consumers may be confused about what constitutes a healthy diet; calls, therefore, on the Member States, in cooperation with the industry, to use innovative information and government-led marketing campaigns in order to motivate consumers to make healthy food choices; calls on the Member States to inform consumers systematically of the health benefits of organic products and at the same time advise them to avoid fast food;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the problem of child obesity and calls on the Commission to take all the necessary measures to prevent it, particularly through the strict control of advertising directed at children and adolescents for foods with a high fat, salt and sugar content;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls for serious account to be taken of nutrition in connection with all European policies and options;