6 Amendments of Antonio DE BLASIO related to 2008/2220(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. underlines that food quality systems should offer a guarantee for consumers of the authenticity of local ingredients and production techniques; considers therefore that such schemes need to be implemented and operated with reinforced controls and traceability systems;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. considers that labelling the main ingredient(s) of food products with the place of origin is desirable if the main ingredient does not come from a "Protected Geographical Indications" (PGI) or "Protected Designation of Origin" (PDO) area; the main ingredient should be interpreted as the ingredient that constitutes more than 50% of the food product; stresses furthermore that such labelling schemes should be used on a voluntacompulsory basis;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. calls for use of the “Made in EU” mark, used as a guarantee of quality and denoting the origin of agricultural and food products, to be permitted only when products contain no ingredients from third countries or when no stage of their production process takes place in a third country;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. calls for further simplification of marketing standards by clarifying the main criteria to be applied; calls for the development of EU guidelines on the use of general reserved terms, such as “low in sugar”, "low carbon", “dietary” and "natural", in order to avoid misleading practices;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. stresses the need to promote organic products and farming as a source of high quality food and a catalyst for environment and animal welfare protection; calls for a simplification of the certification system so as to further develop the organic products market and the introduction, without further delay, of a compulsory EU logo as a means to further increase consumer knowledge and recognition of organic products and to distinguish genuine European organic products;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. recognises that consumers have ever growing demands on the quality of food and food products, not only in terms of safety, but also in terms of ethical concerns, such as environmental sustainability, animal welfare protection and genetically modified organisms (GMO) technologies; calls on the Commission to provide, for foodstuffs and food products from the EU and imported from third countries, criteria for quality initiatives such as voluntary GMO-free labelling schemes which will provide consumers with a clear choice.