9 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2018/2008(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas consumers make an associative link between brand, product and quality and expect products of the same brand to be identical inhave the same quality whether they are sold in their own country or in another Member State;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas products of the same brand may have different characteristics deriving from legitimate factors such as consumers preferences in the destination regions, the place of manufacturing, specific local requirements, or differences in sourcing of raw materials due to their geographical or seasonal availability;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas these analyses also show that certain products include less of the main ingredient, or ingredients that are considered to be less healthy and of poorer quality, or ingredients that have different taste, consistency and other sensory characteristics;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls on the Commission to continue the discussions with the stakeholders – consumer organisations, manufacturers and national authorities within the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network – and awaits development of the common methodology for the comparative tests of food products in different Member States, which should permit greater clarity on the scope of the problem;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Firmly believes that, in response to European citizens’ concerns about different products being sold under the same brand in different Member States, the practice of ‘one brand, one product, different content and proportional compositEU needs to develop a coherent and harmonized strategy to better enforce the existing legislative framework, which already sets out the provision’s needsed to be stopped by means of an amendment to Directive 2005/29/EC of 11 May 2005 concerningensure that consumers are informed about food products, and not misled by unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices when making a purchasing decision;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Urges the Commission to implement all the necessary measures in order to avoid any disruption of the European single market, taking into due account the existing differences in market conditions, purchasing powers and fiscal regimes among Member States;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Insists on the importance of the notion of a "product of reference", against which consumer expectations are to be measured; highlights that consumers need to be adequately informed if a product differs from their expectations, as when inadequate information leads them to buy a product they would not otherwise buy;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Reminds the Commission Notice on the application of EU food and consumer protection law to issues of Dual Quality of food products (2017/C 327/01) which acknowledges producers' right to sell different products in different parts of the single market, due to local preferences, local and seasonal ingredients, or different places of manufacture; warns however that consumers must not be misled and calls on the national food authorities to establish, on a case-by-case basis, if this practice is illegal, based on the provisions of Directive 2005/29/EC on Unfair Commercial Practices, and their interplay with the fair information requirements in Regulation No 1169/2011 on Food Information;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of an agency or other specialised unit toWelcomes the Commission's efforts to assist national enforcement authorities in monitoring consistency of composition and proportional use of ingredients in identically branded and packaged food products., as well as identifying unfair commercial practices in the marketing of food products;